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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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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 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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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A hungry man is not a free man.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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