The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.

Quote by Adlai E Stevenson

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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity...

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity...

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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied...

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under...

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under...

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that...

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that...

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and...

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of...

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of...

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and...

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and...

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then...

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then...

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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never...

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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and...

A hungry man is not a free man.

A hungry man is not a free man.

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The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be...

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the...

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.