Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, Political Quotes, Weight Quotes

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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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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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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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.

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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.

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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.

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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

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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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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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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.

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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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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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