Adlai Stevenson II Quote

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.


Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952); earlier incidence of similar comments exist:


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...

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...

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...

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...