For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIMy definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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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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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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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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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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