After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAnd this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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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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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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