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Adlai E. Stevenson [1900-1965] American

Rank: 101
Politician

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Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Beauty	101
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.	Patriotism	101
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.	Love, Peace, Space, Travel, Work	102
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?		102
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.		103
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.		103
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.	Money, Time	104
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.	Funny	104
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.	Truth	105
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.		105
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.		106
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.		106
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.		107
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.		107
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.	Funny	108
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.	Computers, Space	108
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.	Politics, Truth	109
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.	Car, Dreams	109
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.	Truth	110
Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.		110
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.	Peace, Work	111
The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.		111
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.	Politics	112
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.		112
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.		113
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.		113
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.	Cool	114
We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.		114
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.		115
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.		115
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.	Faith	116
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.	Beauty	117
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.	Death	118
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.	Faith, Government	119
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.		120
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.	Change	121
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.	Future	122
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.	Politics	123
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.		124
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.		125
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.		126
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.	Society	201
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.		202
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.		203
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.		204
Freedom rings where opinions clash.	Freedom	205
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.		206
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.	Forgiveness	207
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.	Chance, Equality	208
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.		209
A hungry man is not a free man.	Freedom	210
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.		211
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.		212
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.		213
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.		214
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.		215
Nature is neutral.	Nature	216
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.		217
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.		218
We have confused the free with the free and easy.		219
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.		220
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.		221
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.		222
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.	Wisdom	223
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.		224
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.		225
Laws are never as effective as habits.		226
Making peace is harder than making war.		301
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.		302
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.		303
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.		304
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.		305
He who slings mud generally loses ground.		306
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.		307
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.		308
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.		309
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.		310
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.		311
In quiet places, reason abounds.		312
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.		313
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.		314
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.		315
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.		316
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.		317
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.		318

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