"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
-Adlai Stevenson
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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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