Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIthe 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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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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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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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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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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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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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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