Adlai E. Stevenson II

American lawyer, politician, and diplomat

Lived from: 1900-1965

Category: Politics

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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.

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  A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

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  A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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  A hungry man is not a free man.
  

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

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  A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

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  Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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  All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
  
  
  Source: Speech Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 march 1954)

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  An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
  
  Source: Leon Harris - The Fine Art of Political Wit (1964)

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  Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
  
  Source: Speech Miami, Florida, september 1956

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  Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
  
  Source: Speech in Urbana, Illinois (1951)

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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.
  
  Source: Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)

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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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  Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

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  Freedom rings where opinions clash.
  

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