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1900–1965 United States
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (5 February 1900 – 14 July 1965) was an American politician and statesman, noted for his skill in debate and oratory; Governor of Illinois, he was twice an unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States running against Dwight D. Eisenhower (in 1952 and 1956).
United States Academics Anti-communists Editors Lawyers Also known as: Adlai E. Stevenson, Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Adlai Stevenson, Stevenson, Adlai
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The whole notion of loyalty inquisitions is a national characteristic of the police state, not of democracy.
And, for better or for worse, the future belongs to those who understand the hopes and fears of masses in ferment.
Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.
Essay in This I Believe : 2 (1952)
I do not believe it is man's destiny to compress this once boundless earth into a small neighborhood, the better to destroy it.
We must not burn down the house to kill the rats.
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.
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
What I Think (1956)
What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man.
Essay in This I Believe : 2 (1952)
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977)
On this shrunken globe men can no longer live as strangers.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)
"Via ovicipitum dura est," or, for the benefit of the engineers among you: "The way of the egghead is hard."
We mean by "politics" the people's business — the most important business there is.
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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