Adlai E. Stevenson

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”

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

“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”

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

“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.”

“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”

“We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.”

“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”

“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.”

“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.”

“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”

“I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.”

“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”

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

“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”

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

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

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

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”

“Nature is neutral.”

“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”

“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.”

“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”

“Making peace is harder than making war.”