We resent a philosophy of government that tells fairy tales in November and ghost stories in January.
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Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
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What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most part, incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men and perhaps, too, a little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see.
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In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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