Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
lies telling truth
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
gains talk
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
integrity fighting government
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.
freedom confused easy
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
kitchen bottles tables
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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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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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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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol
dream freedom mean
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.