Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, War Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.

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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

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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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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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