97 Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

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    Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

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    A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

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    Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.

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    An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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    On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

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    You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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

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