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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

#citizens #democracy #end #law-abiding #ruled

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#every #living #men #needs #redeem

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#freedom #ideal #means #more #nothing

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#editors #men #newspaper #print #separate

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

#day #i #i can #president #reason

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 a part of the twentieth century. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#attended #basis #century #great #nations

We have confused the free with the free and easy. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#easy #free

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#another #car #dreams #even #freedom

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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