Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. — Adlai E. Stevenson Generation Copy Share Image
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. — Adlai E. Stevenson Approach Copy Share Image
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. — Adlai E. Stevenson Age Copy Share Image
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. — Adlai E. Stevenson Accuracy Copy Share Image
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai E. Stevenson Censorship Copy Share Image
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. — Adlai E. Stevenson Absurdity Copy Share Image
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. — Adlai E. Stevenson Human species Copy Share Image
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. — Adlai E. Stevenson Community Copy Share Image
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and… — Adlai E. Stevenson America Copy Share Image
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state… — Adlai E. Stevenson Change Copy Share Image
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." (Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American… — Adlai E. Stevenson Free society Copy Share Image
And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the… — Adlai E. Stevenson Adversity Copy Share Image
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage,… — Adlai E. Stevenson Archives Copy Share Image
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There… — Adlai E. Stevenson Atoms Copy Share Image
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never… — Adlai E. Stevenson Issues Copy Share Image
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone,… — Adlai E. Stevenson Chance Copy Share Image
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety,… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. — Adlai E. Stevenson Men Copy Share Image
“Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson Human needs Copy Share Image
The human race has improved everything, but the human race. — Adlai E. Stevenson Human race Copy Share Image
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. — Adlai E. Stevenson Cavalry Copy Share Image
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. — Adlai E. Stevenson Jail Copy Share Image
“In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.” — Adlai E. Stevenson America Copy Share Image
