Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThere is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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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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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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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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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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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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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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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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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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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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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