97 Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

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

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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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    We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

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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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    Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

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