I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome.


Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI STEVENSON
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, t...
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I ...
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication o...
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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will ...
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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air a...
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI STEVENSON
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air an...
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life...
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Under the wide and starry sky,

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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan ...
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
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I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, It was an American...
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions...
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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI STEVENSON
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of...
ADLAI STEVENSON
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a...
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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In quiet places, reason abounds.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can g...
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