We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIHe who slings mud generally loses ground.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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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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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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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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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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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.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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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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A hungry man is not a free man.
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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