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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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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.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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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
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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