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“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
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“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
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“I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them”
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“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
― Papers of Adlai Stevenson
― Papers of Adlai Stevenson
“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
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“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”
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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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“It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.”
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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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“In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.”
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That's one of the risks you take.”
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“Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
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“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ”
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“A hungry man is not a free man.”
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“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.”
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“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”
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“I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
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“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”
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“What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.”
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“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full time job.”
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“She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
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“Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.”
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“In quiet places, reason abounds.”
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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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“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”
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“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)”
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(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)”
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“Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.”
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“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”
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“I venture to guess that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
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“Someone heard Stevenson’s impressive speech and said, “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need a majority.”
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“Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.”
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