Adlai Stevenson I

Politician

1835-10-23 – 1914-06-14

Adlai Stevenson I was an American politician who served as vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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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.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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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.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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