Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Dark Quotes

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

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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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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.

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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.

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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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.

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

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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.

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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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