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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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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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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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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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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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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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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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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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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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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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A hungry man is not a free man.
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