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Adlai E. Stevenson

"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation."

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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

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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."

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"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."

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"Making peace is harder than making war."

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"I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way."

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"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

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