All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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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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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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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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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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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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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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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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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up.
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