Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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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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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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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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Not to destroy but to construct
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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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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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