My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIIgnorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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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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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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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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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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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.
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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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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 free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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