Adlai Stevenson I

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ”

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. ”

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. ”

Freedom rings where opinions clash. ”

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy. ”

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ”

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. ”

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. ”

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ”