Not to destroy but to construct
ADLAI STEVENSON IIWhen 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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Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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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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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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