Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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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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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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