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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. 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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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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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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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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, 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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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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