Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIwas an American politician and diplomat, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent public speaking, and promotion of progressive causes in the Democratic Party. He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 even though he had not campaigned in the primaries. John Frederick Martin says party leaders selected him because he was "more moderate on civil rights than Estes Kefauver, yet nonetheless acceptable to labor and urban machines—so...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Adlai Stevenson quotes about
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
[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. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far.
When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)
When you leave here, don't forget why you came.