Adlai E. Stevenson

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Born Monday 5 February 1900, died Wednesday 14 July 1965

Occupation: Politician

Nationality: American

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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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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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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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In quiet places, reason abounds.

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Making peace is harder than making war.

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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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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 mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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

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

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

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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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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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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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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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