Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
ADLAI STEVENSON IINot to destroy but to construct
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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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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That you can gather votes like box tops
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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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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 this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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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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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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