Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.