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 journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
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 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 is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
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

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 have confused the free with the free and easy.
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 can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Adlai E. Stevenson

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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