For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
ADLAI STEVENSON IISomeone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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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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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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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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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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Freedom is not an ideal
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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