American - Politician | October 23, 1835 - June 14, 1914
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Stevenson I
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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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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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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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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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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