Adlai Stevenson II

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

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. ”

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ”

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? ”

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ”

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House. ”

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. ”

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations. ”