Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Enjoy the top 57 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Adlai E. Stevenson.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.”
— 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
“Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.”
— 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
— Adlai E. Stevenson
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.”
— 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
“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
— 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
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“We have confused the free with the free and easy.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Making peace is harder than making war.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Laws are never as effective as habits.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
— Adlai E. Stevenson
— 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
“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
— 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
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol
— Adlai E. Stevenson
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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