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.
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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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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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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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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
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