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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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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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Making peace is harder than making war.
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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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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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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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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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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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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.