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Stevenson, Adlai Ewing
Born: 1835 AD
Died: 1914 AD, at 79 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Ambassadors, Politicial Adviser
Died: 1914 AD, at 79 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Ambassadors, Politicial Adviser
US Democratic politician
Representative from Illinois 1875-1877, 1879-1881
vice-president of US 1893-1897
Democratic vice-presidential candidate 1900
grandfather of Adlai Stevenson Jr.
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- "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
- "Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?"
- "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."
- "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."
