Quotes by Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Stevenson II

American politician and governor

Lived from: 1900 - 1965

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 5 february 1900 Died: 14 july 1965

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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.
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  • Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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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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  • He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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  • I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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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.
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  • I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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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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  • I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
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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.
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  • I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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'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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  • If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
    Source: Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952)
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  • Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
    Source: address to the United Nations on October 1, 1963
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  • In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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  • It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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  • It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
    Source: Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954).
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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.
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  • It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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