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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Adlai Stevenson II

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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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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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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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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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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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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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Abraham Lincoln Asked Boy Dark Fellow Felt Hurt Reminded Someone Story Townsman Used
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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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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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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