And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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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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Freedom is not an ideal
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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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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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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And when we lose faith in the system
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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