Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
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What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is
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We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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I am considerably concerned when I see the extent to which we are developing a one-party press in a two-party country
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
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He 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 youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense
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In the long run, it is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts
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For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.