Adlai Stevenson II quotes

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. (Adlai Stevenson II)
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. (Adlai Stevenson II)
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A hungry man is not a free man. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. (Adlai Stevenson II)
We have confused the free with the free and easy. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Freedom rings where opinions clash. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II