Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?
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We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
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You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist, and I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room!
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another
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I am considerably concerned when I see the extent to which we are developing a one-party press in a two-party country
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
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Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
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To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.