The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.


Adlai E. Stevenson

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ADLAI STEVENSON
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions...
ADLAI STEVENSON
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI STEVENSON
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of...
ADLAI STEVENSON
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a...
ADLAI STEVENSON
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
ADLAI STEVENSON
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON
In quiet places, reason abounds.
ADLAI STEVENSON
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
ADLAI STEVENSON
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
ADLAI STEVENSON
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can g...
ADLAI STEVENSON
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the ...
ADLAI STEVENSON
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI STEVENSON
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire t...
ADLAI STEVENSON
We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our ars...
ADLAI STEVENSON
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech...
ADLAI STEVENSON
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
ADLAI STEVENSON
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
ADLAI STEVENSON
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON
The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
ADLAI STEVENSON
Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
ADLAI STEVENSON
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
ADLAI 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.
It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.