Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

The dwelling place of the free mind.

We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

It is upon us whether we will it or not.

All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree

It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?

Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

By better cars on longer credit terms.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship

But a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.