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

— Adlai Stevenson

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.

— Adlai Stevenson

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

— Adlai Stevenson

The human race has improved everything except the human race.

— Adlai Stevenson

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.

— Adlai Stevenson

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

— Adlai Stevenson

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

— Adlai Stevenson

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

— Adlai Stevenson

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 them. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

— Adlai Stevenson

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, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave—to the ancient enemies of man—half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends on the survival of us all.

— Adlai Stevenson