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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
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Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
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Results from Classic Quotes:

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.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
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What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Welcoming address before the Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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