She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThat if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Nature is neutral.
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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a
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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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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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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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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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