Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
freedom confused easy
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
kitchen bottles tables
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
school equality should-have
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.
hurt dark boys
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.
light darkness kind
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
teacher dwelling-place mind
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
drinking alcohol protocol
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol
dream freedom mean
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
country mean patriotic
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 light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
mother freedom liberty
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
war ignorance humanity
Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
revolution ends
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
men vision age
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
winning hands political
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.