Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Funny, Friends, Truth

  Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."

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• Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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  Evil, Political, Mind

  "Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson", (p. 99), 1952.

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• My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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  Freedom, Patriotic, Independent

  Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.

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• You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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  Patience, Integrity, Character

  "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.

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• Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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  Life, Wisdom, Patriotic

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• Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

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  Confidence, Integrity, Fighting

  "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson", (p. 31), 1952.

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• We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Love, Peace, Nature

  Speech to Economic and Social Council of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 July 1965

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• All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Success, Clever, Work

  "The Educated Citizen". Address at Princeton University, March 22, 1954.

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Editors, Wheat

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• The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Race, Civilization, Humans

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• 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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  Fake People, Hypocrite, Cutting

  "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.

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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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  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, September 26, 1952.

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• I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Forgiveness, Believe, Ignorance

  Time magazine, November 01, 1963.

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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.

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  Peace, Journey, League

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 508), 1977.

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• The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

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  Mother, Freedom, Media

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• He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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  Advice, Criticism, Mud

  "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" edited by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 58), 1957.

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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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  Friends, Spring, Good Friend

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• On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

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  Inspiring, Lying, Victory

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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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  Future, Understanding, Vision

  Speech in Richmond, Virginia, September 20, 1952.

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

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  Spiritual, Car, Soul

  "A New America". Adlai E. Stevenson's Acceptance Address at the Democratic National Convention, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. August 17, 1956.

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

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  Nature, Survival, Indifferent

  Radio address, September 29, 1952.

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• Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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  Truth, Honesty, Fancy

  Adlai E. Stevenson's commencement address at Michigan State University, as quoted in The New York Times, June 9, 1958.

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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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  Law, Democracy, Abiding

  Speech in Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 1952.

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