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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Evil, Political, Mind

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

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Life, Wisdom, Patriotic

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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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• 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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• 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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• A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Confidence, Integrity, Fighting

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

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Race, Civilization, Humans

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• He who slings mud generally loses ground.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Advice, Criticism, Mud

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

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• Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

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• A hungry man is not a free man.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Men, Compassion

  Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952

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• Freedom rings where opinions clash.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Opinion, Clash

  Quoted by Ted Weiss during a Congressional hearing, November 13, 1985.

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  School, Equality, Should Have

  Speech to the United Parents Association, as quoted in "The New York Times", April 6, 1958.

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• On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

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  Ignorance, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  "Man of Honor, Man of Peace: The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson". Book by Robert L. Polley, p. 61, 1965.

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.

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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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• 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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• 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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• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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  Wisdom, Political, Generations

  Adlai E. Stevenson (1954). “Call to Greatness”

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• Not to destroy but to construct,
  I hold the unconquerable belief
  that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
  that nations will come together
  not to destroy but to construct
  and that the future belongs to those
  who accomplish most for humanity.

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  War, Ignorance, Science

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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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