When you sling mud, you lose ground.
Adlai Stevenson Quotations
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.