Adlai Stevenson Quotes

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

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Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.

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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

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We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

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Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba Yes or no Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no

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