Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

~ Adlai E. 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.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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

~ Adlai E. Stevenson