Adlai E. Stevenson II Quotes

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

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

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• The relationship of the toastmaster to 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 whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations – great or small – 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 better cars on longer credit terms.

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

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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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• 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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• The human race has improved everything except the human race.

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• Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

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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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• 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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• If the pursuit of peace is both old and new, it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated, for it has to do with people, and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

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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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• Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.

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• It seems to me that government is like a pump, and what it pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample of the intellect, the ethics and the morals of the people, no better, no worse.

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Adlai E. Stevenson II (109)

Birth:	5th February, 1900
Death:	14th July, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent public speaking, and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 even though he had not campaigned in the primaries.

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