FridayAug 22, 2025
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat 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!'
It is often easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
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.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
The world is now too small for anything but 'the truth' and too terrible for anything but 'brotherhood.'
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
We resent a philosophy of government that tells fairy tales in November and ghost stories in January.
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
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.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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.
Of Eleanor Roosevelt: She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Making peace is harder than making war.
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