Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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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.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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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.
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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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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 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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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
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What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is
separates
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.