68 Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson II

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Someone asked me...how it 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 had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

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

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

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.