Quotes from Adlai Stevenson

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

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

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

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

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

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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

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.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.