American - Politician | October 23, 1835 - June 14, 1914
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 Stevenson I
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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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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.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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