Adlai E. Stevenson

Quotes

• “We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committe...”
• “Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touc...”
• “We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to ev...”
• “I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about ...”
• “I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must als...”
• “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box ...”
• “I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies abo...”
• “Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is commit...”
• “Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is on...”
• “There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.”
• “After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”
• “To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.”
• “That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”
• “There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
• “The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
• “Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
• “An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”
• “A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.”
• “Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”
• “On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
• “Freedom rings where opinions clash.”
• “Nature is neutral.”