Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.

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Making peace is harder than making war.

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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

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

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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

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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.

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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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.

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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

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

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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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

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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

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

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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

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

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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

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