Adlai Stevenson I

“I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.”

“In quiet places, reason abounds.”

“The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.”

“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.”

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”

“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”

“There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.”

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

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

“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”

“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”

“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”

“I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.”

“A hungry man is not a free man.”

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

“Nature is neutral.”

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

“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”

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

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”