Adlai Stevenson Quotes
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.
If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.
The relationship of the toastmaster to the 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.
In America any boy may become president and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
