Adlai Stevenson I

"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."

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

"Making peace is harder than making war."

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

"Nature is neutral."

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

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

"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."

"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."

"The relationship of the toastmaster to 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."

"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."

"To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation."

"We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments."

"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 the love we give our fragile craft."