What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIEvery age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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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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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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