Adlai Stevenson I Zitate auf Englisch

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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.

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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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

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

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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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Making peace is harder than making war.

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Laws are never as effective as habits.

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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

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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.

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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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

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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

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He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

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

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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In quiet places, reason abounds.

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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