When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains
ADLAI STEVENSON IIYou will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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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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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Nature is neutral.
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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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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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