After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
ADLAI STEVENSON IINewspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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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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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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