Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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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A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.
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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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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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.