Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
— Adlai Stevenson I
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Nature is neutral.
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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.
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.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
