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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."

“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

All Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics

“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Future

“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

“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

“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Forgiveness

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Society

“Nature is neutral.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Truth

“A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Beauty

“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom

“Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Truth

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Age

“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

“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics

“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

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace

“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

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Wisdom

“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

“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