I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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 Jr.

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

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I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war,… suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

—Anatole France

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