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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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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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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
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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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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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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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