Adlai Stevenson may refer to:
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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.
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
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.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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.