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

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...

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity...

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity...

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under...

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under...

Making peace is harder than making war.

Making peace is harder than making war.

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

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

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it...

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it...

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

We mean by politics the people's business - the most important business there is.

We mean by politics the people's business - the most important business there is.

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...

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that...

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that...

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...

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a...

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a...

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the...

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the...

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be...

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be...

The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who...

The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who...

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,...

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining...

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining...

I wake up in the morning and one thing that I worry about is maybe...

I wake up in the morning and one thing that I worry about is maybe...