He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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.
Adlai E. Stevenson

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson

In quiet places, reason abounds.
Adlai E. Stevenson

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai E. Stevenson

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
Adlai E. Stevenson

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Making peace is harder than making war.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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