Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes - Page 3

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• Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Nature, Science, Men

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• I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Law

  "Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson". Book by John Bartlow Martin, p. 552, 1976.

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• The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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  Political, Weight, Politics

  "The Bolton Embarrassment" by John Nichols, www.thenation.com. August 1, 2005.

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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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  Freedom Of Speech, Society, Principles

  The New York Times, January 19, 1962.

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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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• What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Age, Twenties

  "The Educated Citizen". Adlai E. Stevenson's Commencement Address at Princeton University, infoshare1.princeton.edu. March 22, 1954.

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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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• 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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• Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drug

  "Adlai Stevenson". Book by Herbert J. Muller, p. 274, 1967.

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• And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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  Squares, Faces, Trouble

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• The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

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  Running, Thinking, Political

  "Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations". Book by Leonard Louis Levinson, p. 237, 1971.

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• Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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  Business, Law, Shops

  "The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family". Book by Jean H. Baker, p. 262, 1997.

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• The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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  Time, Political, Politics

  Speech, San Francisco, Cal., 9 Sept. 1952

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• I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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  Winning, Hands, Political

  "Adlai Stevenson: A Study in Values". Book by Herbert Joseph Muller, p. 174, 1967.

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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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  Funny, Journalism, Virtue

  "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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• The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

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  Relationship, Dancer, Effort

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• Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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  Ignorance, Prejudice, Stubborn

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• There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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  Money, Business, Stupid

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

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• There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

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  Morning, New Beginnings, America

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• After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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  Years, Political, Four

  The New York Times, August 14, 1964.

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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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  Lonely, Issues, Political

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• Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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  Apology, Tails, Jackets

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• You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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  Kitchen, Bottles, Tables

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