Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…

There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.