Adlai Stevenson Quotes (45 Quotes)

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

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 li

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy but good administration can never save bad policy.

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.

Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life

When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)

You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist, and I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room.

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

Indeed there are some Republicans I would trust with anything - anything, that is, except public office

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

To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety

In youth, everything seems possible but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.

A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.

Not enough, ... I'm going to need a majority.

The general has dedicated himself so many times, he must feel like the cornerstone of a public building.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 10-foot chain.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help in time of trouble

I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

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.

Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba Yes or no Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no.

I am considerably concerned when I see the extent to which we are developing a one-party press in a two-party country

Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility - these are th

There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution

Via ovicpitum dura est, or, for the benefit of the engineers among you The way of the egghead is hard

Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.

It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting go right and go left at the same time.

I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

The most American thing about America is the free common school system

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

Eggheads unite You have nothing to lose but your yolks

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.