As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
ADLAI STEVENSON IIYou will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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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 hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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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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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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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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Freedom is not an ideal
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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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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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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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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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