We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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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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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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