Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
ADLAI STEVENSON IIDo you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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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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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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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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