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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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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.
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The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Society
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.
Animals
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Society
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty
Liberty
The general has dedicated himself so many times, he must feel like the cornerstone of a public building.
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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The Human Race has improved everything except the Human Race
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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.
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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.
Beginning
The most American thing about America is the free common school system
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The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
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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.
Relationships
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
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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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the support of all thinking Americans.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Time
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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