Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

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.

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

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

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

Nature is neutral.

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.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

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

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

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

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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.

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.

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

The relationship of the toastmaster to 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.

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.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.