Adlai Stevenson

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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.

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.

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

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

It is often easier to fight for your principles than to live up to them.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

When you leave here dont forget why you came.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact ? the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

The United Nations is like a spade; it is not self-operating. It is what we make of it, for purposes that we can find in common with our neighbors in the world.