Adlai E. Stevenson US Vice President
Gender: Male
Citizenship: United States
Born: Oct 23, 1835
Died: Jun 14, 1914
Adlai Ewing Stevenson I served as the 23rd Vice President of the United States. Previously, he served as a Congressman from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his subsequent appointment as Assistant Postmaster General of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration, he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Grover Cleveland's running mate in 1892, and he duly became 23rd Vice President of the United States.
In office, he supported the free-silver lobby against the gold-standard men like Cleveland, but was praised for ruling in a dignified, non-partisan manner.
In 1900, he ran for Vice President with William Jennings Bryan. Although unsuccessful, he was the first ex-Vice President ever to win re-nomination for that post with a different Presidential candidate. Stevenson was the grandfather of Adlai Stevenson II, a Governor of Illinois and the unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate in both 1952 and 1956.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Nature is neutral.
nature
A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
beauty
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
society
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
alone
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
wisdom
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
alone
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
forgiveness
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
money
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.
peace
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
peace
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
future
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
funny
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
freedom
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
truth
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
cool
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
business
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
change
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
nature
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.
beauty
Making peace is harder than making war.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
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Nature is the art of God.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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Let them eat cake.
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Hold fast to youth and beauty.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
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Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
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