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• Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Dream, Government, Justice

  "Adlai's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Stevenson of Illinois" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 20), 1952.

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• 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

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.

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• Not to destroy but to construct,
  I hold the unconquerable belief
  that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
  that nations will come together
  not to destroy but to construct
  and that the future belongs to those
  who accomplish most for humanity.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  War, Ignorance, Science

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• I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Education, School, Jail

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Law, Democracy, Abiding

  Speech in Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 1952.

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• There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Spiritual, Car, Soul

  "A New America". Adlai E. Stevenson's Acceptance Address at the Democratic National Convention, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. August 17, 1956.

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Organization, Soul, Conformity

  "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.

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• Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

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• It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career". Book by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119, 2003.

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• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Wisdom, Political, Generations

  Adlai E. Stevenson (1954). “Call to Greatness”

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• A hungry man is not a free man.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Men, Compassion

  Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952

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• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Tests, Circumstances

  "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.

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• Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Humility, Long, Flattery

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• On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Ignorance, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  "Man of Honor, Man of Peace: The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson". Book by Robert L. Polley, p. 61, 1965.

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• Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Marijuana, Men, Young Generation

  Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 08, 1952.

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• Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Dream, Freedom, Mean

  "Putting First Things First". Foreign Affairs, January 1960.

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• I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Faith, Believe, Brotherhood

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• Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Peace, Survival, Age

  "Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations" by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, (p. 203), 1986.

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• Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Change, Jobs, Inevitable

  "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" edited by James Beasley Simpson, 1957.

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• We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  School, Equality, Should Have

  Speech to the United Parents Association, as quoted in "The New York Times", April 6, 1958.

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• Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Nature, Science, Men

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• I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Responsibility, Thinking, Law

  "Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson". Book by John Bartlow Martin, p. 552, 1976.

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• The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Teacher, Science, Dwelling Place

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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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Political, Weight, Politics

  "The Bolton Embarrassment" by John Nichols, www.thenation.com. August 1, 2005.

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