Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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In quiet places, reason abounds.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Nature is neutral.
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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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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.