Quotes By 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.

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.

Making peace is harder than making war.

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

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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

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.

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

Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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.

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

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.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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

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

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

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.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

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