"Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me."
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. Adlai E. Stevenson
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. Adlai E. Stevenson
Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no? Adlai E. Stevenson
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai E. Stevenson
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. Adlai E. Stevenson
I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far. Adlai E. Stevenson
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. Adlai E. Stevenson
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai E. Stevenson
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. Adlai E. Stevenson
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. Adlai E. Stevenson
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai E. Stevenson
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai E. Stevenson
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. Adlai E. Stevenson
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. Adlai E. Stevenson
It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting "go right" and "go left" at the same time. Adlai E. Stevenson
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. Adlai E. Stevenson
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Adlai E. Stevenson
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. Adlai E. Stevenson
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. Adlai E. Stevenson
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. Adlai E. Stevenson
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. Adlai E. Stevenson
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." (it ain't over till it's over) Adlai E. Stevenson
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai E. Stevenson
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. Adlai E. Stevenson
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. Adlai E. Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. Adlai E. Stevenson
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. Adlai E. Stevenson
The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai E. Stevenson
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor. Adlai E. Stevenson
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. Adlai E. Stevenson
The general has dedicated himself so many times, he must feel like the cornerstone of a public building. Adlai E. Stevenson
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai E. Stevenson
The human race has improved everything, but the human race. Adlai E. Stevenson
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
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. Adlai E. Stevenson
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. Adlai E. Stevenson
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. Adlai E. Stevenson
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. Adlai E. Stevenson
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. Adlai E. Stevenson
This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar. Adlai E. Stevenson
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. Adlai E. Stevenson
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man-and also a nation. Adlai E. Stevenson
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. Adlai E. Stevenson
We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is. Adlai E. Stevenson
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. Adlai E. Stevenson
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. Adlai E. Stevenson
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. Adlai E. Stevenson
You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist, and I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room! Adlai E. Stevenson
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity-the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. Adlai E. Stevenson
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. Adlai E. Stevenson
Type: Politician Date of Birth:
1900-02-05 Year of Death:
1965 Nationality:
American
