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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes About Peace

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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

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Making peace is harder than making war.

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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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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes About Time

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

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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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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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More Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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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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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

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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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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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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.

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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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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Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

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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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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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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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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

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We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

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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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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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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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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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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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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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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.

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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

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The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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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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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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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.

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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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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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