To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIGreat 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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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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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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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a
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