The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
ADLAI STEVENSON IITo act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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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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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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