Adlai Stevenson Quotes

"What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable."

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

"In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take."

"In America, any boy may become President...and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."

"In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes"

"Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility - these are th"

"She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world."

"A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)"

"I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far."

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers."

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

"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."

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

"Via ovicpitum dura est", or, for the benefit of the engineers among you: "The way of the egghead is hard"

"When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)"

"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"

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."

"Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag."