The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIMan has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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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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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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