Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIConfuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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