Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

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

Beauty, Woman, Notice

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

Hypocrite, Down, Speech

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

Politics, Truth, Thinking

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Lie, Down, Victory

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

Beauty, Beautiful, Woman

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

Politics, Political, Winning

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Good, Truth, Forget

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Truth, Lies, Stop

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

Politics, Idea, High

Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom, Opinions, Rings

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

Change, Job, Inevitable

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ignorance, Sin, Redemption

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

America, Face, Color

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

End, Democracy, Beginning

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Justice, Corruption, Dream

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

Long, Flattery, Inhale

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Society, Words, Free

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

Love, Work, Peace

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

Ground, Loses, Mud

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ignorance, Hard, Stubborn

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Mind, Evil, Public

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

Death, Soul, Short

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Wisdom, Another, Often

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: February 5, 1900

Died: July 14, 1965

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