Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
peace survival age
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
faith believe brotherhood
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
journalism sometimes live-by
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
lonely issues political
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
men editors wheat
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
race civilization humans
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
men tests circumstances
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
organization soul conformity
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.
men color america
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
ignorance prejudice stubborn
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
freedom opinion clash
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
funny journalism virtue
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
men age fifty
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
apology tails jackets
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.