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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  • The relationship of the toastmaster to the 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.
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  • The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
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  • The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
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  • The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
    Source: Speech San Francisco (9 september 1952)
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  • The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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  • There is a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied by material things alone - by better cars on longer credit terms.
    Source: Speech DNC 17-08-1956
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  • There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
    Source: Wit and Wisdom (1965)
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  • There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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  • Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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  • To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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  • Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
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  • We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
    Source: Speech Richmond, Virginia, 20 september 1952
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  • We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
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  • We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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  • We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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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.
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  • We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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  • What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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  • What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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  • You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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