To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIWhat a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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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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Not to destroy but to construct
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Nature is neutral.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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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 human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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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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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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