Adlai E. Stevenson II Quotes

• In America, any boy may become president. I suppose that’s just one of the risks that he takes.

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• The best politics is good government.

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• You can’t teach an underdog new tricks.

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• The Republican Party needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century.

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• You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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• Shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom.

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• Via ovum cranium difficilis est. The way of the egghead is hard.

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• Eggheads of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your yolks.

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• My definition of a free society is a society in which it is safe to be unpopular.

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• When political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is wheeled into action.

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• Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom – only in men’s souls.

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• Looking back, I am content. Win or lose I have told you the truth as I see it. I have said what I meant and meant what I said.

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• If Republicans will stop telling lies about the United States, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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• Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

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• Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died.

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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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• 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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• You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity – the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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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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• 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 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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