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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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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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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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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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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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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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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 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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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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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