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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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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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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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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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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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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
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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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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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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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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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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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