Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIWhat a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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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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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains
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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.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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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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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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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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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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