You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIBe solved if we have the will, the courage
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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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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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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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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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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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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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