To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIYour days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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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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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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