All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe 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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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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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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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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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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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