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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  • Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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  • Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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  • Laws are never as effective as habits.
    Speech in New York City (28 August 1952)
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  • Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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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.
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  • Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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  • Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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  • Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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  • Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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.
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  • On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
    The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson (1965) door Robert L. Polley, p. 61
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  • Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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  • Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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  • Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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.
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  • Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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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.
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  • The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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  • The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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.
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