Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAll progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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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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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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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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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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