Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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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.
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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.
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Making peace is harder than making war.
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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.