Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIYou know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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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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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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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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That you can gather votes like box tops
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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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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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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