Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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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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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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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.
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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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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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This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another
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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.