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

Adlai E. Stevenson

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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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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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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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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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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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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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 in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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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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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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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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