Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
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It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most part, incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men and perhaps, too, a little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
The world is now too small for anything but 'the truth' and too terrible for anything but 'brotherhood.'
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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