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.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is neutral.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

In quiet places, reason abounds.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson

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

- 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

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

- Adlai E. Stevenson