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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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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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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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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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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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