Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.
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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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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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A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
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It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting ""go right"" and ""go left"" at the same time.
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We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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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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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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For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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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