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Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Nature is neutral.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Making peace is harder than making war.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.