That you can gather votes like box tops
ADLAI STEVENSON II
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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That you can gather votes like box tops
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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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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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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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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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