And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAnd when we lose faith in the system
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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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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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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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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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