Adlai Stevenson Ii Quotes

#1. I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their hands.

Demetri Martin

#2. She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#3. In quiet places, reason abounds.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#4. Bankrupsy stays on your record for 7-10yrs. That gives you an idea how long it takes to rebuild trust.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#5. Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full time job.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#6. Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

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

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#8. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#9. The Democrats have done so poorly in red states and essentially been evacuated from the red - the entire red part of America particularly off year elections. But I guess they proved that all you need is a completely scandalized Republican opponent.

Joy-Ann Reid

#10. It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#11. Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#12. A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#13. I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#14. Don't give up. If you ever feel alone, know that you aren't. You have people that care for you and that love you. And it's okay to feel sad. There's nothing wrong with you, just talk to someone. Seek help.

M.L. Rodriguez

#15. In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#16. What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#17. There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

Margot Kidder

#18. The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#19. Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#20. You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#21. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#22. It is often easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live up to them.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#23. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

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#24. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#25. George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.

George W. Bush

#26. Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

Thomas Tredgold

#27. She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#28. A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#29. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#30. And our sailors of space have a legend of the furthest star of all, where the gods lay their plans against us, or plot the catastrophes of the end of time: the pachacuti. We call this undiscovered star Karu, which means 'far'.'
'As we speak of Ultima,' Quintus mused.

Stephen Baxter

#31. Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#32. Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Sonny Bono

#33. I believe life is too short to wait and see.

Paige Toon

#34. Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#35. I fight with love and i laugh with rage ... you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change ...

Ani DiFranco