Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

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

Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?

But the Wisconsin tradition meant more than a simple belief in the people. It also meant a faith in the application of intelligence and reason to the problems of society. It meant a deep conviction that the role of government was not to stumble along like a drunkard in the dark, but to light its way by the best torches of knowledge and understanding it could find.

We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, 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, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave — to the ancient enemies of man — half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all.

Tidak ada yang bisa dicapai tanpa usaha.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

Someone heard Stevenson’s impressive speech and said, “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do — I need a majority.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

The human race has improved everything but the human race.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas — except it's more friendly to the United States.

That's not enough, madam; we need a majority!

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

I think that one of our most important tasks is to convince others that there's nothing to fear in difference; that difference, in fact, is one of the healthiest and most invigorating of human characteristics without which life would become meaningless. Here lies the power of the liberal way: not in making the whole world Unitarian, but in helping ourselves and others to see some of the possibilities inherent in viewpoints other than one's own; in encouraging the free interchange of ideas; in welcoming fresh approaches to the problems of life; in urging the fullest, most vigorous use of critical self-examination.