Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety
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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, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?
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We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale
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The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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The most American thing about America is the free common school system
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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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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
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A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
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A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help in time of trouble
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.