Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

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

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

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.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

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

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

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

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

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

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

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

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

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

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

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.

Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.