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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill

I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock, and as he reached the climax of his exhortation, a man in the front row got up and said, 'O Lord, use me. Use me, O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'

- Adlai Stevenson | Advice Quotes

No gains without pains.

- Adlai Stevenson | Aging and Old Age Quotes

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

- Adlai Stevenson | America and Americans Quotes

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

- Adlai Stevenson | Canada and Canadians Quotes

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

- Adlai Stevenson | Character and Personality Quotes

The human race has improved everything except the human race.

- Adlai Stevenson | Civilization Quotes

Laws are never as effective as habits.

- Adlai Stevenson | Habit and Tradition Quotes

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

- Adlai Stevenson | Democracy Quotes

A hungry man is not a free man.

- Adlai Stevenson | Food Quotes

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

- Adlai Stevenson | Fools and Foolishness Quotes

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

- Adlai Stevenson | Greatness Quotes

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

- Adlai Stevenson | Liberty and Human Rights Quotes

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

- Adlai Stevenson | Life Quotes

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

- Adlai Stevenson | Morality and Ethics Quotes

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

- Adlai Stevenson | Opinion Quotes

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

- Adlai Stevenson | Patriotism and Nationalism Quotes

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.

- Adlai Stevenson | Politicians Quotes

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.

- Adlai Stevenson | Politicians Quotes

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

- Adlai Stevenson | Politics Quotes

Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

- Adlai Stevenson | Politics Quotes

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

- Adlai Stevenson | Praise and Flattery Quotes

In America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

- Adlai Stevenson | The Presidency Quotes

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

- Adlai Stevenson | Quips and Comments Quotes

The relationship of the toastmaster to the 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.

- Adlai Stevenson | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

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

- Adlai Stevenson | Wisdom Quotes

They pick a president, and then for four years they pick on him.

- Adlai Stevenson | Politics Quotes

It seems to me that government is like a pump, and what it pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample of the intellect, the ethics and the morals of the people, no better, no worse.

- Adlai Stevenson | Government Quotes

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new, it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated, for it has to do with people, and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

- Adlai Stevenson | Peace Quotes

They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.

- Adlai Stevenson | Presidency Quotes

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

- Adlai Stevenson | Word Quotes