Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I - Page 2

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Path
Chart
Clearly
Led
Present
Wisely
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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.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Freedom
Pay
Voice
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Wisdom
Absurdity
Height
Seems
Becomes
Often
Generation
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Truth
Telling Lies
Them
Democrats
Republicans
Lies
Stop
Telling
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Administration
Memories
Policy
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Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Education
Wise
Men
Money
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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Political
Self
Soul
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Education
Journey
Knowledge
Learning
Wall
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Animal
Handwriting
Strange
Wall
Generally
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Cool
Circumstances
Nation
Perilous
Test
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Political
Political Campaign
Unworthy
Winning
Thing
Any
Campaign
Win
Without
How
Proving
The Hardest Thing
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Nations
Tranquility
United Nations
Convention
Yearn
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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Credit
Hunger
Satisfied
Spiritual
Today World Better
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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Apathy
Indifference
Servant
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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.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Twice
Shave
Twice A Day
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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Running
Politics
Abuse
Political
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Citizens
Democracy
Beginning
Law-Abiding
Ruled
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Conservation
Hypocrite
Politician
Speech
Tree
Then
Make
Who
Cut
Down
Would
Mount
Redwood
Stump
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Color
Every Man
Mutual
Neighbor
Allow
Objective
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Court
Honestly
Testimony
Fundamental
Responsibilities
Willingly
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A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Wise
Men
War
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Journey
Neglect
Single
Thousand
Within
Begins
Small
However
Leagues
Reach
Step
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Beauty
Charming
Do You Know
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Woman
Beauty Beautiful Beautiful Woman
Beautiful Woman
Beauty Beautiful Woman
Between
Woman
Beauty Beautiful Woman Beautiful
Difference
Notice
Notices
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Bones
Dawn
Died
Hesitation
Millions
Victory
Who
Countless
Down
Rest
Lie
Lay
Plains
Resting
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Lonely
Campaign
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Death
Committed
Communism
Conformity
Organization
Soul
Tyranny
Short
Making
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Men
War
Brave
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Freedom
Teacher
Dog
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Nations
Twentieth Century
United Nations
Vote
Weight
All Nations
Attended
Basis
Twentieth
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Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Strength
Being Strong
Lying
Struggle
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Politics
Republican
Telling Lies
Democrats
Lies
Proposition
Telling
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Confidence
Faith
Government
Democracy
Indispensable
Integrity
Lost
Public
Fight
Spend
Lose
System
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Politics
Breakfast
Breakfast Cereal
Candidates
Cereal
Democratic
Democratic Process
Indignity
Merchandise
Office
Process
Ultimate
Box
Idea
High
Gather
High Office
Tops
Votes
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Dancer
Effort
Particular
Cover
Speaker
Subject
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Brotherhood
Path
Safe
Sane
Spread
True Faith
Life Faith Believe
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Hardest Thing
Political Campaign
Unworthy
Winning
Politics Political I Am
Campaign
Experienced
Hand
Proving
Seasoned
The Hardest Thing
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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Insightful
Patriotic
Rights
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Equality
Endowment
Equal
Notion
Opening
Pursuit
Traditional
Confuse
Element
Recover
Schools
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[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Animal
Compassion
Purpose
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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 Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Peace
Space
Travel
Air
Annihilation
Care
Committed
Dependent
Fragile
Passengers
Reserves
Safety
Security
Soil
Together
Vulnerable
Little
Love Work Space
Love Work Peace
Craft
Give
Preserved
Spaceship
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I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
Adlai Stevenson I / Former Vice President Of The United States
Astrology
Political
Sky
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