Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

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Adlai Stevenson I

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 23, 1835

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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In quiet places, reason abounds.

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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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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 is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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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 color.

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

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