There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
ADLAI STEVENSON IILaw is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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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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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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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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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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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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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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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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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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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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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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