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Adlai E. Stevenson
American
Politician
About the author
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Work
#Peace
#Journey
#Neglect
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Time
#End
#Beginning
#Revolution
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Nothing
#Freedom
#Protection
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Freedom
#Opinions
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Ignorance
#Sin
#Forgiveness
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Politics
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Now
#Old
#Winning
#Politics
#Unworthy
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,
American
Politician
#Law
#Court
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Talk
#Road
#Lonely
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,
American
Politician
#Will
#Thinking
#Friends
#Truth
#Republican
#Lies
#Democrats
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Want
#School
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Man
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Change
#Job
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#End
#Law
#Democracy
#Beginning
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Society
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Speech
#Conservation
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Open
#Question
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Virtue
#Lady
#Accuracy
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Years
#Peace
#Nations
#United
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#People
#Progress
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Woman
#Beauty
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,
American
Politician
#Idea
#Office
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Race
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Winning
#Unworthy
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Words
#First
#Society
#Open
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,
American
Politician
#Day
#Reason
#President
#states
#United
#Running
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Wisdom
#Absurdity
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#People
#Open
Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#states
#United
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,
American
Politician
#Public
#Democracy
#Government
#Faith
#Fight
#Integrity
#Confidence
We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#People
#Business
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#World
#Today
#Spiritual
#Credit
#Hunger
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Man
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Public
#Evil
#Mind
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Time
#Now
#Money
#Fool
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Man
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,
American
Politician
#Effort
#Attention
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Present
#Future
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Love
#Security
#Work
#Peace
#Safety
#Care
#Travel
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Man
#Act
#Circumstances
#Nation
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Chance
#Idea
#Equality
#Pursuit
#Schools
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Now
#Forget
#Will
#Friends
#Old
#Truth
#Quiet
#Heaven
#Serenity
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Kitchen
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,
American
Politician
#Right
#Nations
#United
#Vote
#Weight
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Car
#Washington
Making peace is harder than making war.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#War
#Peace
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Laws
#Habits
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Ignorance
#Prejudice
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#May
#President
#America
In quiet places, reason abounds.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Reason
#Quiet
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Life
#Years
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,
American
Politician
#Will
#Man
#America
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Funny
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Peace
#Age
#Survival
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Law
#Business
#Profession
#Service
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Patriotism
#Emotion
#Dedication
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Man
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Nature
#Americans
#Survival
Nature is neutral.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Nature
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Men
#Editors
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Nixon
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Nothing
#Man
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,
American
Politician
#Rest
#Lie
#Dawn
#Victory
#Hesitation
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Men
#Strangers
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Words
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Words
#Man
#Fact
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,
American
Politician
#Want
#Life
#May
#Faith
#Brotherhood
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Justice
#Dream
#Corruption
#Communism
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Will
#Truth
#Lies
#Democrats
#Republicans
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Death
#Soul
#Tyranny
#Conformity
#Communism
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Woman
#Difference
#Beauty
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Time
#Will
#Vision
#Needs
#Men
#Living
#Age
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
American
Politician
#Right
#Flattery