Adlai E. Stevenson
Quotations
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“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it’s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it’s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Making peace is harder than making war.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it’s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it’s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Making peace is harder than making war.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“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 E. Stevenson
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“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Freedom rings where opinions clash.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“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 E. Stevenson
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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.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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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.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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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.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. – Adlai E. Stevenson
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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. – Adlai E. Stevenson
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