What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIIs, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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 idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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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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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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