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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."

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Beauty

All Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

“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

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Beauty

“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

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Age

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics

“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

“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Society

“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

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Business

“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

“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

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Cool

“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

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Money

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature

“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