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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
Quotes: 101 - 120 of 127 Pages: First Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next Last
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms
Hunger
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public
Mind
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man-and also a nation.
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To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety
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Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
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Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them
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United Nations: Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution
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We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Schools
We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is
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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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When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish
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