Top 26 Adlai Stevenson Quotes



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

 

Saskatchewan is much like Texas – except it’s more friendly to the United States.

 

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

 

The human race has improved everything except the human race.

 

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

 

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

 

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

 

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

 

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

 

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

 

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

 

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

 

Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

 

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

 

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done but I have done my best frankly and forth-rightly no man can do more and you are entitled to no less.

 

I’m not an old experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

 

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

 

They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

 

They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.

 

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

 

The relationship of the toastmaster to the 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.

 

In America any boy may become president and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.

 

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

 

Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

 

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.

 

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

 

 

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