“There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one's convictions and not tell the people the truth.”

—  Adlai Stevenson

Responding to an assertion that his support for a ban on nuclear testing would probably cost him votes, as quoted in As We Knew Adlai : The Stevenson Story by Twenty-two Friends (1966) by Edward P. Doyle, p. 185

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