Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson (1900-1965)

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956, losing both elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Quotes

It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
When you sling mud, you lose ground.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Freedom
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

Presidency