I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAll progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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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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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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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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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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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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