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Nature is neutral.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
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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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.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson

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