Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

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

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

“You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.”

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

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

“The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”

“We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.”