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Adlai E. Stevenson
February 5, 1900 - July 14, 1965
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

   

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

   

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

   

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

   

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

   

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

   

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.

   

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

   

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.

   

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

   

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

   

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.

   

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

   

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

   

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

   

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

   

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

   

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

   

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

   

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

   

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