97 Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.