Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
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