What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIthe great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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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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That you can gather votes like box tops
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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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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Great 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 ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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