Quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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

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.

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

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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.

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

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.

Do not, therefore, regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

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.

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

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.