You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
ADLAI STEVENSON IIDo you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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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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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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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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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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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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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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