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.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIIt should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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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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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams
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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
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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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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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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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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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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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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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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