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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

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ADLAI E. STEVENSON Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a politica...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a spee...
ADLAI EWING STEVENSON Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
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. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.