Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai 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, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. – Adlai Stevenson
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai Stevenson
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. – Adlai Stevenson
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. – Adlai Stevenson
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. – Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. – Adlai Stevenson
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai Stevenson
Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? – Adlai Stevenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Adlai Stevenson
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses. – Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. – Adlai Stevenson
[P]atriotism… is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai Stevenson
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. – Adlai Stevenson
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. – Adlai Stevenson
