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Famous Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.”
“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”
“Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.”
“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
“You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.”
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
“In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.”
“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”