To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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