Adlai Stevenson I

“The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.”

“We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.”

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

“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.”

“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.”

“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”

“Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.”

“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.”

“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”

“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”

“Making peace is harder than making war.”

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

“Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”

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

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

“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”