Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

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

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

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

Nature is neutral.

I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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

It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.

In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them