We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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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 guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.
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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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