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
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
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
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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
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
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
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 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
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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
You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity – the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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
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
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Adlai E. Stevenson
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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
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
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson
In quiet places, reason abounds.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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
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
Nature is neutral.
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
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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