Adlai E. Stevenson

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

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

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

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.