And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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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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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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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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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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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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