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Adlai Stevenson

Adlai Stevenson
In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes.
Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility-these are the preconditions of educational recovery in America today; and, I believe, they have always been the preconditions of happiness and sanity for the human race.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.