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 IIProtocol, 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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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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 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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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 have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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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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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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