Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

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Adlai Stevenson I

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 23, 1835

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai Stevenson I

Nature is neutral.

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

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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 died.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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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 notices you.

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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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 will stop telling the truth about them.

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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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