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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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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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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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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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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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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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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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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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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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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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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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