Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
ADLAI STEVENSON IINewspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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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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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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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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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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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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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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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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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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