Adlai Stevenson Quotes & Sayings

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. — Adlai Stevenson

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff. — Adlai Stevenson

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations. — 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. — Adlai Stevenson

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States. — Adlai Stevenson

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. — Adlai Stevenson

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. — Adlai Stevenson

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. — Adlai Stevenson

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. — Adlai Stevenson

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source. — Adlai Stevenson

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House. — Adlai Stevenson

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? — Adlai Stevenson