Quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

A hungry man is not a free man.

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.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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

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

Making peace is harder than making war.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Let's talk sense to the American people.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.

Nature is neutral.

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.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.