Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, Political Quotes, Weight Quotes

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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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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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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

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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

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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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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

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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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