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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.


Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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ADLAI STEVENSON I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
ADLAI STEVENSON The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan ...
ADLAI STEVENSON Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
ADLAI STEVENSON I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
ADLAI STEVENSON I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, It was an American...
ADLAI STEVENSON The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions...
ADLAI STEVENSON A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI STEVENSON Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of...
ADLAI STEVENSON To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a...
ADLAI STEVENSON There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
ADLAI STEVENSON In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON In quiet places, reason abounds.
ADLAI STEVENSON A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
ADLAI STEVENSON We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
ADLAI STEVENSON The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can g...
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