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We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
— Adlai Stevenson
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.
— Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
— Adlai Stevenson I
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
In quiet places, reason abounds.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Laws are never as effective as habits.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
— Adlai Stevenson I
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
— Adlai Stevenson I
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
— 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
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
— Adlai Stevenson I
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
— Adlai Stevenson I
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
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
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
— Adlai Stevenson
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
— Adlai 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
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol
— Adlai E. Stevenson
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
— Adlai Stevenson I
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.
— Adlai Stevenson Samper
Nature is neutral.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
— Joe E. Lewis
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take. — Adlai E. Stevenson II
That's one of the risks you take. — Adlai E. Stevenson II
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full time job.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
— Adlai Stevenson I
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
— Adlai Stevenson
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
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
— Adlai Stevenson I
A hungry man is not a free man.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
It is often easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live up to them.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.
— Adlai Stevenson I
What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?
— Adlai Ewing Stevenson
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
— 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
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
— William Sanderson
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
— 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
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
— Mercedes McCambridge
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
— Adlai Stevenson
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Making peace is harder than making war.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
(Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.
— Christopher Hitchens
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 II
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II