Adlai Stevenson I quotes

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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 the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

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.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

A hungry man is not a free man.

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.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Making peace is harder than making war.

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

Nature is neutral.

Making peace is harder than making war.

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.

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

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.

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.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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

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

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

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.

Making peace is harder than making war.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.