And when we lose faith in the system
ADLAI STEVENSON IIFreedom is not an ideal
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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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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Not to destroy but to construct
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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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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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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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 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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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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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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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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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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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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