Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
ADLAI STEVENSON III think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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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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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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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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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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