Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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Nature is neutral.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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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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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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