The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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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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That you can gather votes like box tops
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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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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