Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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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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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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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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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat 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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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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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.