Adlai E Stevenson Quotes
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We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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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…
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Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
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For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.
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The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping…
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Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the…
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A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
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When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty
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It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
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In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all…
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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