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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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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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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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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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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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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.
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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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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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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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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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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