Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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.
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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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We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
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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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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
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.