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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
In quiet places, reason abounds.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Nature is neutral.
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 -
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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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 -
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
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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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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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson