The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIFlattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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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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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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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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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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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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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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Not to destroy but to construct
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