Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson - Page 2

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Beauty
Women
Beautiful
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Success
Work
Clever
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Inspiring
Lying
Victory
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Issues
Lonely
Political
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Conformity
Organization
Soul
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Nature
Men
Science
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Politics
Political
Weight
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Faces
Squares
Trouble
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Funny
Friends
Truth
Lying
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Truth
Fancy
Honesty
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Confidence
Smile
Government
Fighting
Integrity
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Cereal
Election Process
Thinking
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The relationship of the toastmaster to 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.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Relationship
Dancer
Effort
Fans
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Science
Teacher
Dwelling Place
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Faith
Believe
Brotherhood
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Dream
Freedom
Mean
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Hands
Political
Winning
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Equality
Ideas
School
Should Have
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Friends
Good Friend
Serenity
Spring
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Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Science
War
Ignorance
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Love
Nature
Peace
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Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Boys
Dark
Hurt
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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.
Adlai E. Stevenson / Former Governor Of Illinois
Country
Mean
Patriotic
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