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Adlai E Stevenson Inspirational Quotes (73)

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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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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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.
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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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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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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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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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