That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
ADLAI STEVENSON IICommunism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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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 have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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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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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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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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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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