Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, War Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

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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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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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.

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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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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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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.

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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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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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

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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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There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

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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 university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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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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