Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is neutral.

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

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

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

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

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

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against 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.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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

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.

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

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.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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.

Making peace is harder than making war.