Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Faith, Believe, Brotherhood

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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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• Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

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  Hurt, Dark, Boys

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• 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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  Organization, Soul, Conformity

  "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.

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

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  Forgiveness, Believe, Ignorance

  Time magazine, November 01, 1963.

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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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• 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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• Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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  Dream, Government, Justice

  "Adlai's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Stevenson of Illinois" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 20), 1952.

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• Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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  Humility, Long, Flattery

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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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• It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

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  Men, Objectivity, Color

  Foreword to booklet on interracial relations prepared by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The New York Times, June 22, 1964.

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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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• I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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  Education, School, Jail

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• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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  Men, Tests, Circumstances

  "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.

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• It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career". Book by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119, 2003.

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• Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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  Birthday, Men, Vision

  "What I Think". Book by Adlai E. Stevenson (p. 142), 1956.

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• Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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  Marijuana, Men, Young Generation

  Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 08, 1952.

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• The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

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  Teacher, Science, Dwelling Place

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• We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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  Freedom, Confused, Easy

  "Putting First Things". Book by Adlai E. Stevenson, 1960.

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• Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

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  Dream, Freedom, Mean

  "Putting First Things First". Foreign Affairs, January 1960.

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• A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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  Mouths, Politics, Politician

  "The Fine Art of Political Wit". Book by Leon Harris, 1964.

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• She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Kind

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• A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

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  Love, Beauty, Reality

  "The Stevenson Wit" edited by Bill Adler, 1965.

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