17 Quotes by Adlai Stevenson II

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    To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

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    We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

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    Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

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    Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

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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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    The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.

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