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Quotes by Adlai E Stevenson
- That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
- The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
- The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
- The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
- The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
- There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
- To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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