If the Republicans stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is neutral.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

— Adlai E. Stevenson