Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

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

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

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

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Nature is neutral.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol

Making peace is harder than making war.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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