I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIA beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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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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Nature is neutral.
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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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That you can gather votes like box tops
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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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 first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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