The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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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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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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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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