Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Adlai E. Stevenson
Like
Office
Gather
Politics
Breakfast
High
Candidates
Idea
Boxes
Indignity
Process
Election
Tops
Ideas
Democratic
Merchandise
Think
Vote
Cereal
Thinking
Ultimate
Votes
More quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson
There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai E. Stevenson
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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
Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
Adlai E. Stevenson