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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes


Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Nature is neutral.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

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

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

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

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.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.