| An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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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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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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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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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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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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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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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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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. |
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- Adlai E. Stevenson |
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