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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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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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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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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–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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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.
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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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