“The relationship of the toastmaster to 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 E. Stevenson
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“Making peace is harder than making war.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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“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
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“Nature is neutral.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
— 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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“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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