Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai E. Stevenson
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat 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
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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