In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIPeace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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Nature is neutral.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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