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.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIBut 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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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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