Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

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Adlai Stevenson I

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 23, 1835

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

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Making peace is harder than making war.

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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