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
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
[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.
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.
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
We mean by ''politics'' the people's business -- the most important business there is.
We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution