More from Adlai Stevenson

  1. Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale it.
  2. The legislature is a frightening thing. To this day the state capitol building seems to me a beast ready to swallow me up; the very walls a…
  3. Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyran…
  4. I refuse to personally criticize President Eisenhower, I will not submit to the Republican concept of gravity.
  5. Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
  6. Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
  7. 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…
  8. I am always amazed by the resistance offered to progress, even the most innocuous progress. Imagine, if you will, jumping from one rickety …

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