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 Copy Share Image
In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates) — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular,… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share
