Inspiring Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson - Page 2

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

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions"

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

"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"

"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts"

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

"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance"

"He who slings mud generally loses ground"

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

"Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came"

"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"

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age"

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