We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIMy definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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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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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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