A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
ADLAI STEVENSON IIPatriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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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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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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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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