Adlai Stevenson Quotes
Most popular Adlai Stevenson Quotes
![A hungry man is not a free man. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/03/20603A-a-hungry-man-is-not-a-free-man-adlai-stevenson.png)
A hungry man is not a free man.
![To the victor belong the toils. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/64/21864A-to-the-victor-belong-the-toils-adlai-stevenson.png)
To the victor belong the toils.
![In quiet places, reason abounds. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/24/14324A-in-quiet-places-reason-abounds-adlai-stevenson.png)
In quiet places, reason abounds.
![Flattery is alright if you don't inhale. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/84/21284A-flattery-is-alright-if-you-dont-inhale-adlai-stevenson.png)
Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.
![A wise man does not try to hurry history. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/99/8799A-a-wise-man-does-not-try-hurry-history-adlai-stevenson.png)
A wise man does not try to hurry history.
![Flattery is all right—if you don't inhale. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/32/13832A-flattery-is-all-right-if-you-dont-inhale-adlai-stevenson.png)
Flattery is all right—if you don't inhale.
![Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/17/21317A-ignorance-is-stubborn-and-prejudice-dies-hard-adlai-stevenson.png)
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.
![There is no evil in the atom; only in man's soul. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/17/10617A-there-is-no-evil-in-the-atom-only-mans-soul-adlai-stevenson.png)
There is no evil in the atom; only in man's soul.
![Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/55/22655A-communism-is-the-corruption-of-a-dream-justice-adlai-stevenson.png)
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
![Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/04/24004A-power-corrupts-but-lack-of-power-corrupts-absolutely-adlai-stevenson.png)
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
![Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/39/19439A-understanding-human-needs-is-half-the-job-meeting-them-adlai-stevenson.png)
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
![A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/53/11453A-a-free-society-is-a-place-where-its-safe-be-adlai-stevenson.png)
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
![The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/45/21445A-the-time-to-stop-a-revolution-is-at-beginning-not-adlai-stevenson.png)
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
![I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/70/22970A-i-dont-want-to-send-them-jail-i-want-send-adlai-stevenson.png)
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
![It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/45/13645A-it-is-often-easier-to-fight-principles-than-live-up-adlai-stevenson.png)
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
![In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/86/43186A-in-america-anybody-can-be-president-thats-one-risks-you-adlai-stevenson.png)
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
![An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/79/23979A-an-independent-is-the-guy-who-wants-take-politics-out-adlai-stevenson.png)
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
![My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/28/15128A-my-definition-of-a-free-society-is-society-where-it-adlai-stevenson.png)
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
![For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/72/50272A-for-my-part-i-believe-in-forgiveness-sin-redemption-ignorance-adlai-stevenson.png)
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
![A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and an ever present help in times of trouble. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/69/34669A-a-lie-is-an-abomination-unto-lord-ever-present-help-adlai-stevenson.png)
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and an ever present help in times of trouble.
![Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/60/14260A-man-does-not-live-by-words-alone-despite-fact-that-adlai-stevenson.png)
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
![An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/12/22912A-an-editor-is-someone-who-separates-wheat-from-chaff-then-adlai-stevenson.png)
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
![Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/38/15238A-those-who-corrupt-the-public-mind-are-just-as-evil-adlai-stevenson.png)
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
![There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/27/21027A-there-was-a-time-when-a-fool-his-money-were-adlai-stevenson.png)
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
![The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/42/51042A-the-sound-of-tireless-voices-is-price-we-pay-right-adlai-stevenson.png)
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
![If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/89/19789A-if-the-republicans-will-stop-telling-lies-about-democrats-we-adlai-stevenson.png)
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
![Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/94/23294A-bad-administration-to-be-sure-can-destroy-good-policy-but-adlai-stevenson.png)
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
![The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/76/52676A-the-hardest-thing-about-any-political-campaign-is-how-win-adlai-stevenson.png)
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
![I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/42/52642A-i-offer-my-opponents-a-bargain-if-they-will-stop-adlai-stevenson.png)
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
![The kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, and then mount the stump and make a speech on conservation. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/13/37713A-the-kind-of-politician-who-would-cut-down-redwood-tree-adlai-stevenson.png)
The kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, and then mount the stump and make a speech on conservation.
![I like Republicans, have grown up with them, worked with them, and would trust them with anything in the world, except public office. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/84/22884A-i-like-republicans-have-grown-up-with-them-worked-with-adlai-stevenson.png)
I like Republicans, have grown up with them, worked with them, and would trust them with anything in the world, except public office.
![The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/27/15227A-the-idea-that-you-can-merchandise-candidates-high-office-like-adlai-stevenson.png)
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
![Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/73/22473A-do-you-know-the-difference-between-beautiful-woman-charming-one-adlai-stevenson.png)
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
![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. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/94/24394A-man-has-wrested-from-nature-the-power-make-world-desert-adlai-stevenson.png)
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.
![If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/58/22458A-if-we-value-the-pursuit-of-knowledge-we-must-be-adlai-stevenson.png)
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
![The idea that you can merchandize candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity of the political process. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/39/37639A-the-idea-that-you-can-merchandize-candidates-high-office-like-adlai-stevenson.png)
The idea that you can merchandize candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity of the political process.
![I am not unmindful of the fact that countless middle-aged moralists like me are rising these days on countless platforms all over the world to tell thousands of helpless young captives the score—and I suspect that all of those commencement orators are almost as uncomfortable as I am. - Adlai Stevenson quote.](/img/q/21/23321A-i-am-not-unmindful-of-the-fact-that-countless-middle-adlai-stevenson.png)
I am not unmindful of the fact that countless middle-aged moralists like me are rising these days on countless platforms all over the world to tell thousands of helpless young captives the score—and I suspect that all of those commencement orators are almost as uncomfortable as I am.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is ... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.