Adlai Stevenson

Adlai Stevenson may refer to:

  • Adlai Stevenson I (1835–1914), U.S. Vice President (1893–1897) and Congressman (1879–1881)
  • Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965), Governor of Illinois (1949–1953), U.S. presidential candidate (1952 and 1956), U.N. Ambassador (1961–1965), grandson of Adlai Stevenson I
  • Adlai Stevenson III (born 1930), U.S. Senator (1970–1981), Illinois State Representative (1965–1967), candidate for Illinois governor (1982 and 1986), son of Adlai Stevenson II
  • Adlai Stevenson IV (born 1956), journalist, son of Adlai Stevenson III

Famous quotes by adlai stevenson:

    “We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business—the most important business there is.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy—for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals—than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)