Poems List

She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.

of Eleanor Roosevelt

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The young man who asks you to set him one heart-beat from the Presidency of the United States.

of Richard Nixon as Vice-Presidential nominee

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We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinkmanship—the art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss.

speech in Hartford, Connecticut, 25 February 1956; see Dulles 123:2

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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

speech in Detroit, 7 October 1952; in Major Campaign Speeches … 1952 (1953)

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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes!

speech in Indianapolis, 26 September 1952

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If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

speech during 1952 Presidential campaign; in J. B. Martin Adlai Stevenson and Illinois (1976) ch. 8

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Let’s talk sense to the American people.

Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

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