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Quote by Adlai Stevenson
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political a

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. – Adlai Stevenson

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai 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 Stevenson

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. – Simone de Beauvoir

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