Adlai Stevenson I

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.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

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.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

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.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.