Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, Friends Quotes, Spring Quotes

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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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

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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

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

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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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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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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

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

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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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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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