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
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai E. Stevenson
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
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. – Adlai E. Stevenson
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
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. – Adlai E. Stevenson
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. – Adlai E. Stevenson
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
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation. – Adlai E. Stevenson
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
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. – Adlai E. Stevenson
You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity – the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. – Adlai E. Stevenson
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. – Adlai E. Stevenson
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai E. Stevenson
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. – Adlai E. Stevenson
