Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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.

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

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.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

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.

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

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

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.