Adlai E Stevenson Quotes

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

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

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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

What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." (Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy's. "Do you remember," Stevenson said, "that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' " At this hour, Obama is the Democrats' Demosthenes.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

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Someone heard Stevenson’s impressive speech and said, “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need a majority.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.

Freedom rings where opinions clash,

Diplomacy, women's like eunuchs: "The diplomacy of women is very much like that of eunuchs; it is false and dangerous, ultimate good seldom comes of it. Women are good as counsellors but bad as actors. Perhaps no negotiation has ever been perfected since the creation of the world without their interference and advice, but they are best kept out of sight. Their judgement is shrewd and clear on any abstract question submitted to them; but their own conduct is always too much influenced by personal feelings to render their entire management of affairs either proper or expedient." — Grenville Murray, cited by Sir Victor Wellesley Diplomatic life: "American diplomacy is easy on the brain, but hell on the feet." — Charles G. Dawes [Henry Prather Fletcher retorted: "It depends on which you use."] Diplomatic life: "A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol." — Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.

Foreign policy, politicization of: "No administration can conduct a sound foreign policy when the future sits in judgement on the past and officials are held accountable as dupes, fools or traitors for anything that goes wrong." — Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr., 1954 Foreign policy, popular support for: "No foreign policy — no matter how ingenious — has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none." — Henry A. Kissinger, 1973 Foreign policy, process by which formed: A camel is a horse designed by a committee. A platypus is a bird put together by bureaucrats. An elephant is a mouse built to military specifications. A shrimp is a fish conceived in the legislative process. More often than not, a foreign policy is a course of action devised by a committee of bureaucrats and military men under the oversight of a legislature. Not surprisingly, such a thing defies simple description.