Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

Gentlemen, there is business before your house and I propose to get right to it, obeying, as far as I can, what seems to me becoming to be known as the Republican law of gravity.

Some war hero is always getting in my way.

I have sometimes said that flattery is all right, Mr. President, if you don't inhale it.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.

Whenever I hear one of these old guard leaders on the other side talking about cutting taxes, when he knows it means weakening the nation, I always think of that story about the tired old capitalist who was driving alone in his car one day, and finally, he said "James, drive over the bluff; I want to commit suicide."

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.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations great or small — to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Never run against a war hero.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

I can't say that I love it with a fierce passion — indeed as a profession it's rather disappointing since it is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

The art of government has grown from its seeds in the tiny city-states of Greece to become the political mode of half the world. So let us dream of a world in which all states, great and small, work together for the peaceful flowering of the republic of man.

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

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

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.