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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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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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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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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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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.
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