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An American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent oratory, and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent oratory, and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 and 1956; both times he was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination for a third time in the election of 1960, but was defeated by Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. After his election, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson as the Ambassador to the United Nations; he served from 1961 to 1965. He died on July 14, 1965 in London, England after suffering a fatal heart attack.Here are some famous quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson.
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No gains without pains.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
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Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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The human race has improved everything except the human race.
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They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.
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It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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In America anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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In America any boy may become president and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted but now it happens to everybody.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.
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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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Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.
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Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.
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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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It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is I think the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Freedom is not an ideal it is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate to live without dreams to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to the 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.
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I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done but I have done my best frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more and you are entitled to no less.
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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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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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I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock and as he reached the climax of his exhortation a man in the front row got up and said 'O Lord use me. Use me O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'
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Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry but it hurt too much to laugh.
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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.