5 Adlai Stevenson Quotes on Integrity

Adlai Stevenson quotes on integrity

31. I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forthrightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.

50. 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.

54. 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.

83. There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one's convictions and not tell the people the truth.

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