Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
compose men society women
A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.
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He 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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In the long run, it is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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The general has dedicated himself so many times, he must feel like the cornerstone of a public building.
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In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense
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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
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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.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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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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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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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.