It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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 a New America every morning when we wake up.
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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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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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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