Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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• A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
• A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
• 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…
• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we…
• 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…
• Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
• Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the…
• 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…
• Freedom rings where opinions clash.
• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I…
• He who slings mud generally loses ground.
• The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
• Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
• Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
• You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
• I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
• Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
• 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 security…
• As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
• It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not…

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