Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes, Country Quotes, Mean Quotes

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.

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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.

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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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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.

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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.

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

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

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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.

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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