Adlai E Jr Stevenson Famous Quotes
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
"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."
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
Adlai E Jr Stevenson Quotations
"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs."
Oscar Wilde
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Roosevelt Eleanor
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Aesop
"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams."
Og Mandino
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'"
Jim Fox
"When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor."
Martin Luther