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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.

Adlai Stevenson II

Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Committed Making Short Tyranny Universal
So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Neglect never Peace Reach Small Within Work
We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Certain Faith May Path Spread True
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
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
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Country Glistening He Prairies Love Mean Patriotic Plain Rising Say Sun
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Bottle Kitchen Table
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
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.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Country Indifferent Nature Species Survival
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Anand Thakur
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
ADLAI STEVENSON II

Agreeable Contest Disagreeable Fancy Honesty Often Popular Truth

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