Quote: The human race has improved everything, but the human race. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: 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. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts! [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: 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. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Laws are never as effective as habits. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: We have confused the free with the free and easy. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: A hungry man is not a free man. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. [Adlai E. Stevenson]
Quote: Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. [Adlai E. Stevenson]