My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIConfuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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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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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Nature is neutral.
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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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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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