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Laws are never as effective as habits.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Habits

Laws

Making peace is harder than making war.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace

War

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

Kitchen

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.

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.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

Future

Present

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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Attention

Effort

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

Man

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