All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
ADLAI STEVENSON IINewspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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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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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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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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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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