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A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson


An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
-- Adlai Stevenson


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

-- Adlai Stevenson


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

-- Adlai Stevenson


A diplomat's life consists of three things: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.
-- Adlai Stevenson


A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of
trouble.
-- Adlai Stevenson


“BYTE editors are men who seperate the wheat from the chaff, and then
print the chaff.”
-- Lionel Hummel (uiucdcs!hummel), derived from a quote by Adlai Stevenson, Sr.


A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson


In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one
of the risks he takes.
-- Adlai Stevenson


Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

-- Adlai Stevenson


Isn't it conceivable to you that an intelligent person could harbor
two opposing ideas in his mind?
-- Adlai Stevenson, to reporters


A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of
trouble.
-- Adlai Stevenson


A diplomat's life consists of three things: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.
-- Adlai Stevenson


An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff
and prints the chaff.

-- Adlai Stevenson


He who slings mud generally loses ground.
-- Adlai Stevenson


“Flattery is all right -- if you don't inhale.”
-- Adlai Stevenson


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

-- Adlai Stevenson


Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
-- Adlai Stevenson


A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

-- Adlai Stevenson


An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
-- Adlai Stevenson


Isn't it conceivable to you that an intelligent person could harbor
two opposing ideas in his mind?
-- Adlai Stevenson, to reporters


In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one
of the risks he takes.
-- Adlai Stevenson


He who slings mud generally loses ground.
-- Adlai Stevenson


Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
-- Adlai Stevenson


A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson