Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!" Adlai E. Stevenson
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"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Flattery is all right if you don't inhale." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"The human race has improved everything, but the human race." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Freedom rings where opinions clash." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"In quiet places, reason abounds." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Making peace is harder than making war." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"We mean by ''politics'' the people's business -- the most important business there is." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth." Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for." Adlai E. Stevenson
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