Quotation:
"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."
More quotes from: Adlai E. Stevenson
- "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 ..."
- "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 ..."
- "After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity ..."
- "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 ..."
- "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 - ..."
- "Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty ..."
- "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - ..."
- "Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. "
- "For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. "
- "Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing ..."
- "Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little ..."
- "He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount ..."
- "He who slings mud generally loses ground. "
- "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. "
- "I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it ..."
- "I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ..."
- "I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. "
- "I find Paul appealing and Peale appalling. "
- "I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that ..."
- "I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes ..."
- "I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a ..."
- "I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to ..."
- "If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the ..."
- "In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the ..."
- "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. "
- "It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with ..."
- "It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to ..."
- "It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a ..."
- "Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair ..."
- "Laws are never as effective as habits. "
- "Making peace is harder than making war. "
- "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to ..."
- "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until ..."
- "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be ..."
- "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 ..."
- "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 ..."
- "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 ..."
- "Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. "
- "Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. "
- "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of ..."
- "The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United ..."
- "The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be ..."
- "The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who ..."
- "The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an ..."
- "The general has dedicated himself so many times, he must feel like the cornerstone of ..."
- "The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you ..."
- "The human race has improved everything, but the human race. "
- "The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that ..."
- "The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. "
- "The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the ..."
- "The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. "
- "The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. "
- "The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great ..."
- "There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now ..."
- "This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the ..."
- "Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from ..."
- "To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man-and ..."
- "We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which ..."
- "We have confused the free with the free and easy. "
- "We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is. "
- "We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must ..."
- "We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be ..."
- "We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air ..."
- "What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for ..."
- "You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist, and I ..."
- "You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the ..."
- "You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy ..."
- "Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in ..."


