Adlai E. Stevenson quotes
I find Paul appealing and Peale appalling.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.