Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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 the other way.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Adlai E. Stevenson

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Adlai E. Stevenson

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

Adlai E. Stevenson

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai E. Stevenson

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Adlai E. Stevenson

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Adlai E. Stevenson

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Adlai E. Stevenson