Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

- Adlai Stevenson I

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

- Adlai Stevenson I

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to free…

- Adlai Stevenson I

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

- Adlai Stevenson I

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

- Adlai Stevenson I

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes…

- Adlai Stevenson I

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see th…

- Adlai Stevenson I

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

- Adlai Stevenson I

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

- Adlai Stevenson I