Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
business mean
We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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.
country mean patriotic
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
dig grave starry wide
Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
advice avoid careful counsel damages following giving ought
We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
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To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety
cannot generally man until wall
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
lies telling truth
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
concerned country developing extent press
I am considerably concerned when I see the extent to which we are developing a one-party press in a two-party country
behind guilty head rather talking
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
dangerous freedom security
Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
candles curse darkness glow light rather
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.
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.