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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."

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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All Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Society

“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

“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

Faith

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Cool

“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Death

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Change

“Nature is neutral.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature

“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

“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

“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Money

“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom

“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

“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

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Business

“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Truth

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Funny

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Alone

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Age