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01Undated

In America any boy may become president and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Adlai Stevenson / quote

02Undated

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Adlai Stevenson / quote

03Undated

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

Adlai Stevenson / quote

04Undated

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

Adlai Stevenson / quote

05Undated

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai Stevenson / quote