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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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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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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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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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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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