Adlai Stevenson I

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

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

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.

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

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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

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

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.

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.

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 the love we give our fragile craft.