Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
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.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?
Stevenson, Adlai E.
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Stevenson, Adlai E.