You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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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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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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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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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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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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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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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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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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