Adlai Stevenson (1900 – 1965)
American politician and statesman, noted for his skill in debate and oratory; Governor of Illinois, he was twice an unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States running against Dwight D Eisenhower (in 1952 and 1956).
I have learned that In quiet places, reason abounds, that in quiet people there is vision and purpose, that many things are revealed to the humble that are hidden from the great.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Gentlemen, there is business before your house and I propose to get right to it, obeying, as far as I can, what seems to me becoming to be known as the Republican law of gravity.
The human race has improved everything but the human race.
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses ... yet we are all children of the same Judaic-Christian civilization, with much the same religious background basically.
Happily for us, students have not tried to overthrow the Government of the United States, but they certainly are making their views felt in public affairs. I think especially of the participation of American students in the great struggle to advance civil and human rights in America. Indeed, even a jail sentence is no longer a dishonor but a proud achievement.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
This has also been paraphrased "What matters most is not the years in your life, but the life in your years" and misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mae West.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
I am a lawyer. I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities, not only of every citizen, but particularly of lawyers, is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly, and it will be a very unhappy day for Anglo-Saxon justice when a man, even a man in public life, is too timid to state what he knows and what he has heard about a defendant in a criminal trial for fear that defendant might be convicted. That would to me be the ultimate timidity.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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.