Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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

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.

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.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

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

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

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.

Making peace is harder than making war.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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.

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

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

Nature is neutral.

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

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

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.

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

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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