A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

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.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

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.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

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.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Making peace is harder than making war.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

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.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

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.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Quote