Stevenson, Adlai E.
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Stevenson, Adlai E.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Civilization
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Brotherhood
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Communism and Socialism
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.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Elections
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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Change
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.
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Cooperation
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Editing and Editors
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.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Elections
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
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Life and Living
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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Freedom of Speech
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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Freedom
Laws are never as effective as habits.
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Habit
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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Freedom of Speech
Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
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Grave
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Freedom
Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
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Golf
What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Patriotism
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Generations
A hungry man is not a free man.
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Freedom
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Firmness
Flattery is all right if you don t inhale.
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Flattery
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Patriotism
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Power
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Politicians and Politics
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Survival
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Progress
We mean by politics the people s business -- the most important business there is.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Politicians and Politics
In America, anybody can be president. That s one of the risks you take.
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President
It is always easier to fight for one s principles than to live up to them.
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Principles
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
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Platitudes
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Peace
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Politicians and Politics
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
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Speakers and Speaking
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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Words
The relationship of the toastmaster to the 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.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Speakers and Speaking
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Speakers and Speaking
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Society
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person s head than behind his back.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Speakers and Speaking
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.
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United Nations
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Slander
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Understanding
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Age and Aging
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Accuracy
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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Vision