We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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I 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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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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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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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 a New America every morning when we wake up.
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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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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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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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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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