I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about… — 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 Image
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 Image
When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates) — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
