Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes About Politics

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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.

    "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
  • My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

    Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.
  • 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.

    Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.
  • 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.

    "The Bolton Embarrassment" by John Nichols, www.thenation.com. August 1, 2005.
  • 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.

    Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."
  • The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

    Speech, San Francisco, Cal., 9 Sept. 1952
  • A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

    "The Fine Art of Political Wit". Book by Leon Harris, 1964.
  • That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

    Adlai E. Stevenson (1954). “Call to Greatness”
  • Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

    "Adlai's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Stevenson of Illinois" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 20), 1952.
  • I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

  • 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.

    "Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations". Book by Leonard Louis Levinson, p. 237, 1971.
  • In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

    Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, September 26, 1952.
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Adlai E. Stevenson

  • Born: February 5, 1900
  • Died: July 14, 1965
  • Occupation: Former Governor of Illinois