“The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.”

— Adlai Stevenson

Quoted in The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964); this statement is derived from one by humorist Don Marquis

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mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the… 1900–1965

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