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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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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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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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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
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Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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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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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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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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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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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
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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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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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