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.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAnd this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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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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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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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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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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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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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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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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And when we lose faith in the system
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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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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