It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIConfuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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