Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIPeace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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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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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 don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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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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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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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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And when we lose faith in the system
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