Quotes By 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
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. 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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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