Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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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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A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.
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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?
Not enough, ... I'm going to need a majority.
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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 Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
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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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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale
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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