Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, Law Quotes, Democracy Quotes

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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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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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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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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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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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.

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

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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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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 in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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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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