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Adlai Stevenson

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    A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

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    Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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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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    A hungry man is not a free man.

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    A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

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    All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

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    And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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    A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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    As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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    Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

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    Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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    Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

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    Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

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    Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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    Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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    Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

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    Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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    He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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    I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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    I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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    I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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    Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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    I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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    I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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    I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. 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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    In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

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    I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

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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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    Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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    Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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    My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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    Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

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    Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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    Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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    Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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    Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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    Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war 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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    On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

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    Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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    Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

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    Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

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    Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

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    She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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    Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

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    Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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    That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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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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    The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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    The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

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    The human race has improved everything, but the human race.