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title: "2 Counts Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson"
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> [“What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/what-counts-is-not-the-years-in-your-life-but-the-life-in-your-years/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

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> [It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/it-is-not-the-years-in-your-life-but-the-life-in-your-years-that/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

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## Other authors on Counts

## More by Adlai E. Stevenson

> [“She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/she-would-rather-light-candles-than-curse-the-darkness-and-her-glow/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/the-relationship-of-the-toastmaster-to-speaker-should-be-the-same-as/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/you-can-tell-the-size-of-a-man-by-the-size-of-the-thing-that-makes/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/we-travel-together-passengers-on-a-little-spaceship-dependent-on-it-s/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/when-an-american-says-that-he-loves-his-country-he-means-not-only/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/if-the-republicans-will-stop-telling-lies-about-the-democrats-we-will/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [“In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/in-america-anyone-can-become-president-that-s-one-of-the-risks-you/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/it-will-be-helpful-in-our-mutual-objective-to-allow-every-man-in/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/the-idea-that-you-can-merchandise-candidates-for-high-office-like/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/do-you-know-the-difference-between-a-beautiful-woman-and-a-charming/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/there-is-a-spiritual-hunger-in-the-world-today-and-it-cannot-be/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/and-all-our-troubles-all-our-immense-difficulties-now-and-in-the/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/a-politician-is-a-statesman-who-approaches-every-question-with-an/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/nothing-so-dates-a-man-as-to-decry-the-younger-generation/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

> [What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/what-a-man-knows-at-fifty-that-he-did-not-know-at-twenty-is-for-the/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

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