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.

Quote by Adlai E Stevenson

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can...

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can...

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

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

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity -...

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity -...

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty...

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty...

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for...

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for...

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and...

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and...

When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)

When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in...

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in...

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can...

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can...

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

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

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied...

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied...

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the...

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the...

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you...

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you...

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study,...

Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study,...

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing...

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing...

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.