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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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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

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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

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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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