Adlai Stevenson 1 Quotes

#1. An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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#2. 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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#3. You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#4. We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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

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#6. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#7. 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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#8. It is often easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live up to them.

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

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#10. In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

David Pietrusza

#11. He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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#12. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#13. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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#14. There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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#15. 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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#16. An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

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

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#18. 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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#19. (Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.

Christopher Hitchens

#20. There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

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

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#22. Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

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#23. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson I

#24. 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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#25. Making peace is harder than making war.

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#26. 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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#27. A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick.
John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

John Steinbeck

#28. The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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

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#30. A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

Adlai Stevenson