Adlai Ewing Stevenson Quotes (15 Quotes)

The world is now too small for anything but 'the truth' and too terrible for anything but 'brotherhood.'

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

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Mr. Stevenson 'Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person' Stevenson called back 'That's not enough, madam, we need a majority'

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Of Eleanor Roosevelt She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most part, incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men and perhaps, too, a little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see.

We resent a philosophy of government that tells fairy tales in November and ghost stories in January.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.