Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
dig grave starry wide
Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
Not enough, ... I'm going to need a majority.
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This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity-the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
business politics
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
politics
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
life
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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.