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> [We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/we-must-recover-the-element-of-quality-in-our-traditional-pursuit-of/)

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

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## 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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