That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIMy definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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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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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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