After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIWhen 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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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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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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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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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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