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Adlai Stevenson

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Quotes by Adlai Stevenson

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff and then print the chaff.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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It reminds me of the small boy who jumbled his biblical quotations and said: A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.'
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If they will stop telling lies about us, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
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I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling falsehood about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
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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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The United Nations is like a spade; it is not self-operating. It is what we make of it, for purposes that we can find in common with our neighbors in the world.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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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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