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Men Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson
- Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them…
- You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
- 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…
- A hungry man is not a free man.
- To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
- Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
- What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
- Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
- On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
- Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
- There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
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