Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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 that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Adlai E. Stevenson

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you ca...

Adlai E. Stevenson

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 that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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