We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai E. Stevenson
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  1. To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  2. We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

  3. Nature is neutral.

  4. 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.

  5. We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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