Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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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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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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And when we lose faith in the system
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains
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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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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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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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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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