Adlai Ewing Stevenson Famous Quotes
"When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
"Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains."
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
"More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test."
"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand."
Adlai Ewing Stevenson Quotations
"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly."
Thomas Jefferson
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
Margaret Cho
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."
Kenneth A Wells
You never really know someone until you have been their friend.
Walker Best
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."
Cheers
"Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life."
Yiddish Proverb
"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them."
Suzanne Necker
"Walking isn't a lost art -- one must, by some means, get to the garage."
Evan Esar