Contests Quote by Adlai E Stevenson

“You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.” quote by Adlai E Stevenson — Download Open image

“You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.”

Adlai E Stevenson

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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

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

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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

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