A biography for Adlai Stevenson Ihasn’t been written yet.
“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”
“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.”
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
“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.”
“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”
“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
“We have confused the free with the free and easy.”
“Laws are never as effective as habits.”
“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.”
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”
“As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.”
“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
“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.”
“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
“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.”
“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
“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.”
“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”
“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”
“Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”