Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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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.
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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 politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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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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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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In quiet places, reason abounds.
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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.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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.
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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.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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Nature is neutral.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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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.
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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.