And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
ADLAI STEVENSON IITo act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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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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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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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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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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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The dwelling place of the free mind.
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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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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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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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