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Quotations by author » Adlai E. Stevenson
American Politician. Governor of Illinois (1949-53) and Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-65). 1900-1965
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
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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.
PoliticsWinning
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard
IgnorancePrejudice
In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes
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In America, any boy may become President...and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
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In quiet places, reason abounds
Reason
In the long run, it is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts
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In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense
Youth
Indeed there are some Republicans I would trust with anything - anything, that is, except public office
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It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting "go right" and "go left" at the same time.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts
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It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Principles
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them
Journalism
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Law and lawyers
Laws are never as effective as habits.
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