Best Adlai E. Stevenson Sayings
- The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. Best
- We have confused the free with the free and easy. Confused
- You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. Beat
- The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to… Any
- The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote,… All
- We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea… All
- Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Dedication
- Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him… Abraham
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Censorship
- In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. America
- She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. Candle
- Nature is neutral. Nature
- If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Democrats
- An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. Chaff
- Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. Animal
- Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Alone
- The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. Beginning
- An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. Independent
- The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Any
- Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. Age
- Laws are never as effective as habits. Effective
- Making peace is harder than making war. Harder
- A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Free
- The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. All
- To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he… Accurately