The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIShe was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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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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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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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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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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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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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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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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