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.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIYou will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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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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Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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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.
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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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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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Nature is neutral.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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