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Famous Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
“The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.”
“The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.”
“There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.”
“A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.”
“Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”
“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
Source: Call to Greatness
“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”
“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”