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
ADLAI STEVENSON IIFlattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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the 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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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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