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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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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.
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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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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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