Adlai Ewing Stevenson

54 quotes

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

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - the acid, final test."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends ... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"We have confused the free with the free and easy."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"A wise man does not try to hurry history."

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Adlai Ewing Stevenson