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Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
Adlai Stevenson I
American
Politician
Born:
Oct 23
,
1835
Died:
Jun 14
,
1914
Every
Man
Peace
Politics
Will
You
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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.
Adlai Stevenson I
Hypocrite
Politician
Down
Tree
Kind
Would
Stump
Make
Redwood
Mount
Cut
Then
Who
Speech
Conservation
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.
Adlai Stevenson I
Beautiful
You
Woman
Beautiful Woman
Beauty
Charming
Between
Do You Know
Know
Difference
Notice
Notices
Who
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson I
Truth
Will
Telling
Telling Lies
Telling The Truth
Lies
About
Democrats
Stop
Republicans
Them
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai Stevenson I
Mind
Evil
Those
Corrupt
Steal
Purse
Just
Public
Public Mind
Who
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.
Adlai Stevenson I
Politics
Truth
Will
Thinking
Telling
Telling Lies
Telling The Truth
Would
Lies
About
Proposition
Make
Democrats
Been
Friends
Stop
Republican
Them
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.
Adlai Stevenson I
Lie
Victory
Rest
Resting
Down
Hesitation
Lay
Dawn
Countless
Died
Plains
Who
Millions
Bones
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai Stevenson I
Freedom
Clash
Rings
Opinions
Where
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.
Adlai Stevenson I
Death
Soul
Communism
Organization
Tyranny
Total
Making
Committed
Short
Conformity
Universal
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.
Adlai Stevenson I
Politics
Political Campaign
You
Win
Political
Old
Enough
About
Winning
Learned
Without
How
Am
Unworthy
Hand
Campaign
Proving
Any
The Hardest Thing
Experienced
Now
Seasoned
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai Stevenson I
Work
Love
Travel
Together
Peace
Safety
Space
Care
Soil
Preserved
Our
Air
Security
Give
Only
Annihilation
Vulnerable
Passengers
Craft
Committed
Dependent
Spaceship
Little
Reserves
Fragile
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai Stevenson I
Change
Better
Job
Inevitable
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai Stevenson I
Words
Free
Free Society
First
Society
Open
Principle
Forum
Flow
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson I
Political Campaign
You
Win
Political
About
Winning
Without
How
Unworthy
Campaign
Proving
Any
The Hardest Thing
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
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.
Adlai Stevenson I
Faith
Government
Democracy
Confidence
Integrity
Fight
Lose
Lost
Spend
Everything
System
Indispensable
Public
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Stevenson I
People
Progress
Positions
Took
Unpopular
Resulted
Who
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Adlai Stevenson I
School
Send
Jail
Want
Them
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai Stevenson I
Politics
Independent
Out
Someone
Take
Wants
Who
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.
Adlai Stevenson I
Truth
Good
You
Old
Will
Go Away
Good Friends
Touch
Feel
Days
Leave
Came
Go
Springs
Friends
Quiet
Forget
Heaven
Short
Lovely
Place
Depths
Your
Serenity
Now
Why
Away
Here
Last
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai Stevenson I
Man
Strange
Animal
Back
Generally
He
Until
Read
His
Up
Wall
Handwriting
Cannot
Against
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai Stevenson I
Man
Nation
Circumstances
Perilous
Also
Test
Act
Cool
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Adlai Stevenson I
Man
Generation
Nothing
Dates
Younger
Younger Generation
Making peace is harder than making war.
Adlai Stevenson I
War
Peace
Making
Than
Harder
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai Stevenson I
Virtue
Print
Always
Accuracy
Lady
Newspaper
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai Stevenson I
Ignorance
Stubborn
Prejudice
Hard
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai Stevenson I
Forgiveness
Ignorance
Believe
Sin
Redemption
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Stevenson I
Time
Fool
Money
Everybody
Parted
Soon
Were
His
Happens
Now
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