Quotes 21 till 40 of 207.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Virginibus Puerisque (1881) -
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
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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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Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (2014) -
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
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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.
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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Speech Miami, Florida, september 1956 -
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
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