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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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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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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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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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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
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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.
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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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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.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson