Words matter. These are the best Adlai Stevenson I Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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.
Laws are never as effective as habits.
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.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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.
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today – and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
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.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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.
A hungry man is not a free man.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
