Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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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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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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