She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.Adlai Stevenson
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Adlai Stevenson
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
Adlai Stevenson
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner li
Adlai Stevenson
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.
Adlai Stevenson
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