Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes


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


You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. - Adlai E. Stevenson


You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. - Adlai E. Stevenson


You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. - Adlai E. Stevenson


When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner li. - Adlai E. Stevenson


What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai E. Stevenson


What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is. - Adlai E. Stevenson


What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. - Adlai E. Stevenson


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