She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAnd now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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And when we lose faith in the system
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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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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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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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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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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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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