Adlai Stevenson I

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.

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

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Making peace is harder than making war.

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

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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.

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

Nature is neutral.

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