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Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

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AgePeaceSurvival

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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ChanceEqualityQuality

We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.

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BusinessPoliticsMean

You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity – the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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Beat Kitchen Table

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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TimeBeginning Stop

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

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Mouth Open Question

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

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AloneFact Words

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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PoliticsWants

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

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Fifty Knows Twenty

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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AloneEat Words

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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Progress Took Unpopular

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today – and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

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Cannot Spiritual Today

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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MenNewspaper Separate

In quiet places, reason abounds.

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Places Quiet Reason

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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BusinessLaw Rather
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