Adlai Stevenson I Quotes Quotes

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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.
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.
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 time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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Adlai Stevenson I
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23 October, 1835
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14 June, 1914
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