I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAfter four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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