41 Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson


Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E. Stevenson on nature

Nature is neutral.
Adlai E. Stevenson on nature

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 fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson on peace

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

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 on peace

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

Making peace is harder than making war.
Adlai E. Stevenson on peace

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson on politics

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson on politics

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson on politics

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai E. Stevenson on politics

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

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 on relationship

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

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 fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson on travel

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson on truth

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 came.
Adlai E. Stevenson on truth

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson on truth

Making peace is harder than making war.
Adlai E. Stevenson on war

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson on wisdom