Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Dark Quotes

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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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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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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

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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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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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

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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

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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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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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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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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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