~ Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

[MysteRy]

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

[MysteRy]

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done but I have done my best frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more and you are entitled to no less.

[MysteRy]

I'm not an old experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock and as he reached the climax of his exhortation a man in the front row got up and said 'O Lord use me. Use me O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'

[MysteRy]

Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry but it hurt too much to laugh.

[MysteRy]

When an American says that he loves his country he means not only that he loves the New England hills the prairies glistening in the sun the wide and rising plains the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.