Adlai E. Stevenson II > Quotes

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“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

“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.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
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― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full time job.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“I venture to guess that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“A hungry man is not a free man.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“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.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“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

“Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“In quiet places, reason abounds.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“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

“Tidak ada yang bisa dicapai tanpa usaha.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II