Adlai Stevenson I
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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.
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.Collection: Patriotic
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.Collection: Education
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.Collection: Apathy
Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.Collection: Carpe Diem
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.Collection: Sky
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.Collection: Freedom
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.Collection: Independent
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.Collection: Wise
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.Collection: Work
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.Collection: Lying
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.Collection: Self
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...Collection: Funny
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.Collection: Freedom
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?Collection: Running
[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.Collection: Animal
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.Collection: Dog
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.Collection: Memories
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.Collection: Party
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.Collection: Wise
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.Collection: Education
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.Collection: Cat
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.Collection: Strength
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.Collection: War