Adlai Ewing Stevenson Quotes

We mean by "politics" the people's business -- the most important business there is.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in trouble.

The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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.

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.

What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.

Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.