Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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.

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

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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

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.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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

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

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

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

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

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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

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.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.