Adlai Stevenson Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.