Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

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.

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.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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.

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, 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.

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

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.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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.

A hungry man is not a free man.

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

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

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.

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

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients protocol, Geritol and alcohol

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.