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.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIIs, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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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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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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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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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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