Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

“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 dont forget when you leave why you came.”

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

“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.”

“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts”

“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”

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

“Nature is neutral.”

“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”

“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”

“The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”

“Freedom rings where opinions clash”

“In quiet places, reason abounds”

“It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”

“When you leave here, dont forget why you came. ( to college graduates)”

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

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

Nature is neutral.

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.