Electoral history of Adlai Stevenson, 31st Governor of Illinois (1949-1953), 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1966) and Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956.
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“A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility—I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)