Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes About Politics
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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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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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Adlai E. Stevenson
- Born: February 5, 1900
- Died: July 14, 1965
- Occupation: Former Governor of Illinois