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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Organization, Soul, Conformity

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

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Nature, Survival, Indifferent

  Radio address, September 29, 1952.

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• Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  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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• 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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• 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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Humility, Long, Flattery

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  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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• We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Education, School, Jail

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspiring, Lying, Victory

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Tests, Circumstances

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

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  War, Ignorance, Science

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Hurt, Dark, Boys

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Marijuana, Men, Young Generation

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

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Wisdom, Political, Generations

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

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Dream, Freedom, Mean

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

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Light, Darkness, Kind

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Love, Beauty, Reality

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

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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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• Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Change, Jobs, Inevitable

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

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• Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Journalism, Sometimes, Live By

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• Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Peace, Survival, Age

  "Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations" by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, (p. 203), 1986.

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