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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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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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.

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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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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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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

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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.

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

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

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

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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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.

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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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

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