We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
ADLAI STEVENSON IISomeone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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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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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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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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