Adlai Stevenson II quotes - page 2

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. (Adlai Stevenson II)
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. View quote
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. View quote
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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. View quote
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. View quote
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. View quote
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. View quote
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He who slings mud generally loses ground. View quote
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. View quote
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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. View quote
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. (Adlai Stevenson II)
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. View quote
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. View quote
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. View quote
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. View quote
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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. View quote
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. View quote
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With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? View quote
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. (Adlai Stevenson II)
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. View quote
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. View quote
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We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is. View quote
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race. View quote
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