There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIPeace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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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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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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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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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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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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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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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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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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And when we lose faith in the system
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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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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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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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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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