Adlai E. Stevenson II Quotes

In America, any boy may become president. I suppose that’s just one of the risks that he takes.

The best politics is good government.

You can’t teach an underdog new tricks.

The Republican Party needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom.

Via ovum cranium difficilis est. The way of the egghead is hard.

Eggheads of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your yolks.

My definition of a free society is a society in which it is safe to be unpopular.

When political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is wheeled into action.

Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom – only in men’s souls.

Looking back, I am content. Win or lose I have told you the truth as I see it. I have said what I meant and meant what I said.

If Republicans will stop telling lies about the United States, we will stop telling the truth about 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.