MondaySep 14, 2026
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Making peace is harder than making war.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
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.
Of Eleanor Roosevelt: She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most part, incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps, too, a little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
We resent a philosophy of government that tells fairy tales in November and ghost stories in January.
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
The world is now too small for anything but 'the truth' and too terrible for anything but 'brotherhood.'
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
It is often easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.
During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Mr. Stevenson 'Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!' Stevenson called back 'That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!'
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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