Quotes from Adlai Stevenson

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

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

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

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Flattery is like smoking — it is not dangerous so long as you do not inhale.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and a moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. And we love it for this audacity!

No gains without pains.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.