So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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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And when we lose faith in the system
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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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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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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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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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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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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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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