Famous Quotes / Adlai E. Stevenson
48 Quotations by Adlai E. Stevenson
- 21. It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- 22. Laws are never as effective as habits.
- 23. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- 24. Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
- 25. Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
- 26. On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
- 27. Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of ...
- 28. Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
- 29. Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
- 30. Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
- 31. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- 32. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
- 33. The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
- 34. The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars.
- 35. The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars.
- 36. The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can g ...
- 37. The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan ...
- 38. The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
- 39. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions ...
- 40. The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations -- great or small -- to have weigh ...