Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAll progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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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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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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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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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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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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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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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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