Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIA politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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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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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a
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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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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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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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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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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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