To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
ADLAI STEVENSON IILaw is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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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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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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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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Not to destroy but to construct
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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Nature is neutral.
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