Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adlai E. Stevenson

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Making peace is harder than making war.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adlai E. Stevenson

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Adlai E. Stevenson

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai E. Stevenson