Adlai Stevenson

But the Wisconsin tradition meant more than a simple belief in the people. It also meant a faith in the application of intelligence and reason to the problems of society. It meant a deep conviction that the role of government was not to stumble along like a drunkard in the dark, but to light its way by the best torches of knowledge and understanding it could find.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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.

Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

In America any boy may become president and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

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.

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry but it hurt too much to laugh.

They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done but I have done my best frankly and forth-rightly no man can do more and you are entitled to no less.

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.