Quote

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Adlai E. Stevenson
Inevitable
Full
Jobs
Change
Better
Time

More quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

Image
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Image
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson