Famous Quotes / Adlai E. Stevenson
48 Quotations by Adlai E. Stevenson
- 1. A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- 2. A hungry man is not a free man.
- 3. A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in trouble.
- 4. A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
- 5. A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
- 6. Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
- 7. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
- 8. An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
- 9. Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
- 10. Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
- 11. Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
- 12. Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
- 13. Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagn ...
- 14. Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
- 15. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- 16. I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
- 17. I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will ...
- 18. I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
- 19. I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the ...
- 20. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.