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During the campaign of Democrat Adlai Stevenson a supporter allegedly told him that he was sure to "get the vote of every thinking man" in the U.S., to which Stevenson is said to have replied, "Thank you, but I need a majority to win."
In the 1952 presidential election against Dwight D. Eisenhower, Stevenson won only nine states and lost the Electoral College vote 442 to 89.
Two quotes from George Santayana:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
