41 Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson


Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Adlai E. Stevenson on age

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

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

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

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson on beauty

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 on beauty

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

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai E. Stevenson on business

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai E. Stevenson on change

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

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 on death

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 on equality

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 on faith

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 on faith

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson on forgiveness

Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson on freedom

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

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

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 on government

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