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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Biography

Author Profession: Politician
Nationality: American
Born: February 5, 1900
Died: July 14, 1965

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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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Nature is neutral.
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We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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