Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
ADLAI STEVENSON IISomeone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
More Adlai Stevenson II Quotes
-
-
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
The boldness to face them, face them square.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
ADLAI STEVENSON II -
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
ADLAI STEVENSON II






