Adlai E. Stevenson
33 quotations
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
A hungry man is not a free man.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.