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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson