Adlai E. Stevenson

(497 votes)   Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(415 votes)   What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(352 votes)   Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(343 votes)   It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(322 votes)   Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(249 votes)   On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(249 votes)   The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(234 votes)   The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(234 votes)   The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(222 votes)   A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

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

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(200 votes)   All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(195 votes)   Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(191 votes)   A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(177 votes)   What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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