Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
future understanding vision
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
thinking cereal election-process
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.
freedom men compassion
A hungry man is not a free man.
law democracy abiding
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
wisdom political generations
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
money business stupid
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
fake-people hypocrite cutting
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
freedom-of-speech society flow
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
relationship dancer effort
The relationship of the toastmaster to 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.
political weight politics
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
responsibility thinking law
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
drinking alcohol protocol
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol
truth news fancy
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.
kitchen bottles tables
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.