1. Stevenson - “Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.”

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2. Adlai Stevenson - “In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.”

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3. Adlai E. Stevenson - “There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”

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4. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Making peace is harder than making war.”

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5. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “A hungry man is not a free man.”

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6. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.”

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7. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”

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8. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Of Eleanor Roosevelt: She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”

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9. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Flattery is all right — if you don't inhale.”

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10. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.”

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11. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.”

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12. Adlai Ewing 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.”

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13. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.”

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14. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.”

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15. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”

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16. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”

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17. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.”

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18. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”

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19. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.”

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20. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “The world is now too small for anything but 'the truth' and too terrible for anything but 'brotherhood.'”

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21. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”

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22. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”

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23. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “He who slings mud generally loses ground.”

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24. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.”

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25. Adlai Ewing Stevenson - “It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

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