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
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
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
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. -Adlai E. Stevenson Truth
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
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. -Adlai E. Stevenson Car
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its 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
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. -Adlai E. Stevenson Space
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. -Adlai E. Stevenson Money
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. -Adlai E. Stevenson Society
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
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has 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
