Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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And when we lose faith in the system
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Freedom is not an ideal
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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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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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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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