Quotes by Adlai Stevenson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
– Adlai Stevenson
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
– Adlai Stevenson
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
– Adlai Stevenson
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
– Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
– Adlai Stevenson
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
– Adlai Stevenson
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