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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.

Adlai Stevenson II

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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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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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Nature is neutral.
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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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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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