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We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Business
People
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
Faith
Government
Confidence
Democracy
Fight
Integrity
Public
Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.
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states
United
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson
People
Open
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Wisdom
Absurdity
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
President
Reason
Running
states
United
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Society
First
Open
Words
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Winning
Unworthy
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Race
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Idea
Office
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Peace
Work
Journey
Neglect
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Time
Beginning
End
Revolution