We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIPublic confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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And when we lose faith in the system
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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Nature is neutral.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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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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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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 university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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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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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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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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