She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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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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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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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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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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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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