I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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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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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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