Adlai Stevenson I Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Adlai Stevenson I:

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

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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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.

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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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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.

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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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Nature is neutral.

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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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

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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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

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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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

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