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3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is neutral.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

Making peace is harder than making war.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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