7 Adlai Stevenson Quotes on Ethics

Adlai Stevenson quotes on ethics

18. In the tragic days of Mussolini, the trains in Italy ran on time as never before and I am told in their way, their horrible way, that the Nazi concentration-camp system in Germany was a model of horrible efficiency. The really basic thing in government is policy. Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

19. There is no evil in the atom, only in men's souls.

36. Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

42. He who slings mud generally loses ground.

52. Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen, the anonymous phone call and hustling, pushing, shoving; the land of smash and grab and anything to win. This is Nixonland. But I say to you that it is not America.

70. For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

87. Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.