Best Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
- I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. Inspirational
- That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. Absurdity
- A hungry man is not a free man. Compassion
- To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. Act
- It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Business
- We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. Chart
- The human race has improved everything, but the human race. Civilization
- Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. Alone
- Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. Chaff
- Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. Age
- I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain… Believe
- I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming… Anybody
- Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Accuracy
- All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All
- I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. Court
- Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. American
- 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. Any
- There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. Better
- What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. Age
- A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. Approach
- After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. Convention
- Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. All
- Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. Apology
- Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. Dates
- On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. Brotherhood