Adlai E. Stevenson famous quotes

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Peace #Journey #League

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Freedom #Patriotic #Independent

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Success #Clever #Work

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Advice #Criticism #Mud

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Integrity #Character #Men

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Spiritual #Car #Soul

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Forgiveness #Believe #Ignorance

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Humility #Long #Flattery

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Beauty #Beautiful #Women

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Love #Beauty #Reality

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Friends #Truth #Lying

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Money #Business #Stupid

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Wisdom #Political #Generations

A hungry man is not a free man.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Freedom #Men #Compassion

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Fake People #Hypocrite #Cutting

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Law #Democracy #Abiding

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Love #Peace #Nature

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Inspirational #Funny #Motivational

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Inspiring #Lying #Victory

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Change #Jobs #Inevitable

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Friends #Spring #Good Friend

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Evil #Political #Mind

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Society #Principles #Flow

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Thinking #Cereal #Ideas

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Witty #Humorous #America

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Ignorance #Men #Community

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Relationship #Dancer #Effort

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Political #Weight #Politics

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Life #Wisdom #Patriotic

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Responsibility #Thinking #Law

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Dream #Government #Justice

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Future #Understanding #Vision

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Marijuana #Men #Generations

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Inspirational #People #Mouths

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Running #Thinking #Political

We have confused the free with the free and easy.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Freedom #Confused #Easy

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Kitchen #Bottles #Tables

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Business #Law #Shops

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Sometimes #Live By #Journalist

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Men #Objectivity #Color

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#School #Equality #Ideas

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Ignorance #Prejudice #Stubborn

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Hurt #Dark #Boys

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Winning #Hands #Political

Freedom rings where opinions clash.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Freedom #Opinion #Clash

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Apology #Tails #Jackets

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Organization #Soul #Conformity

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Men #Editors #Wheat

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Peace #Survival #Age

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Faith #Believe #Brotherhood

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Lonely #Issues #Political

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Funny #Journalism #Virtue

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Race #Civilization #Humans

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Nature #Survival #Indifferent

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Men #Tests #Circumstances

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Education #School #Jail

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Men #Age #Twenties

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Mouths #Politics #Politician

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Years #Political #Four

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Light #Darkness #Kind