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
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular
We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes
In America, any boy may become President...and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Indeed there are some Republicans I would trust with anything - anything, that is, except public office
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.