Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai E. Stevenson

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is neutral.
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.
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

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.
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 first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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