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Adlai E. Stevenson

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Details about Adlai E. Stevenson's life are scarce, but their observations have traveled far and wide. Their thinking spans from Politics to Peace, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Browse 41 quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson that cover ground from Politics, Peace, Truth, Nature, and Faith. One quote that captures their voice: "We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is."

“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom

All Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Alone

“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Cool

“We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Business

“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Wisdom

“I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics

“The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Relationship

“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Equality

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Funny

“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics

“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 E. Stevenson

Beauty

“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Change

“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.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace

“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Alone

“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

Peace

“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.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Faith

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Age

“Nature is neutral.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature

“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace

“Making peace is harder than making war.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace

“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Age