129 Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

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

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

A hungry man is not a free man.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

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

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.