Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai E. Stevenson
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai E. Stevenson
In quiet places, reason abounds.
Adlai E. Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson
