Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

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.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.

You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity

Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.

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.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy

Not to destroy but to construct

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a

Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil

And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

Freedom is not an ideal

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane

The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

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

I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations

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