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"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
- Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson, Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952, More quotation on Freedom. | |
"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
- Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson, Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952, More quotation on America. | |
"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. Jr. Stevenson. | |
"It makes me shudder to think that I graduated from college thirty years ago and how doddering and venerable the thirtieth reunion class looked to me then."
- Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson, October 8, 1952. | |
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
- Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson, quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978. | |
"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
- Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson, retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963. | |
"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. Jr. Stevenson, speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952, More quotation on Knowledge. | |
"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. Jr. Stevenson, Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign. | |
"Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one."
- Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson, speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952, More quotation on Language. |
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