Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAfter four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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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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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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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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