Famous Adlai Stevenson Quotations

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"When you leave here, don't forget why you came."
by Adlai Stevenson
"You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news."
by Adlai Stevenson
"Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States"
by Adlai Stevenson
"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop."
by Adlai Stevenson
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth"
by Adlai Stevenson
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions"
by Adlai Stevenson
"America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality"
by Adlai Stevenson
"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff"
by Adlai Stevenson
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."
by Adlai Stevenson
"Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set"
by Adlai Stevenson
"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"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"
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"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."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take"
by Adlai Stevenson
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
"Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation"
by Adlai Stevenson
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime"
by Adlai Stevenson
"Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
by Adlai E. Stevenson
"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."
by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
"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."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world."
by Adlai Stevenson
"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."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end."
by Adlai Stevenson
"There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"When you sling mud, you lose ground."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one."
by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
"What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable."
by Adlai Stevenson
"A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you."
by Adlai E. Stevenson
"A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe."
by Adlai Stevenson
"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. But it is not easy to banish the notion that there can be universal brotherhood just as soon as everybody gives up his faith and accepts ours. That day may never come, for the richness of human diversity cannot be abolished any more than Mars or Jupiter. Difference is the nature of life, it is part of our moral Universe. Without difference, life would become lifeless."
by Adlai Stevenson
"Laws are never as effective as habits."
by Adlai Stevenson
"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."
by Adlai Stevenson
"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."
by Adlai Stevenson
"We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power"
by Adlai Stevenson
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil ad steady dedication of a lifetime."
by Adlai Stevenson
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
by Adlai Stevenson
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
by Adlai Stevenson
"The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams."
by Adlai Stevenson
"I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches."
by Adlai Stevenson
"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions."
by Adlai Stevenson
"The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it."
by Adlai Stevenson
"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."
by Adlai Stevenson
"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no gr..."
by Adlai Stevenson
"We mean by 'politics' the people's business—the most important business there is."
by Adlai Stevenson


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