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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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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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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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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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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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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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