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

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E. Stevenson

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Adlai E. Stevenson

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai E. Stevenson


As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson