Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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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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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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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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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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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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And when we lose faith in the system
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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