Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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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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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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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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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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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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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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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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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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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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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