Famous quotes by Politicians

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"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"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"In America, any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"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"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Nature is neutral"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"After four years at the United Nations, I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"It will be helpful in our mutual objective, to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face, and see a man-not a color"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"He who slings mud generally loses ground"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

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