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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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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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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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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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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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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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
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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.