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.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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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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That you can gather votes like box tops
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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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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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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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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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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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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