129 Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.

To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

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?

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale