Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Adlai E. Stevenson
Peacemaking
Condition
Survival
Nuclear
Conditions
Age
Peace
More quotes by 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
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
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
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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
Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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
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
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Adlai E. Stevenson
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai E. Stevenson
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson