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
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
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.
Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
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.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!
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?
We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution