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Adlai Stevenson Quotes
Adlai Stevenson Quotes
To escort a cat on a leash is against the nature of the cat.
- Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai Stevenson
A diplomat’s life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
- Adlai Stevenson
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
- Adlai Stevenson
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
- Adlai Stevenson
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
- Adlai Stevenson
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
- Adlai Stevenson
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
- Adlai Stevenson
I have been tempted to make a proposal to our Republican friends: that if they stop telling lies about us, we would stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai Stevenson
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- Adlai Stevenson
