The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.


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ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a spee...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Freedom rings where opinions clash
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of thi...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
"Via ovicpitum dura est", or, for the benefit of the engineers among you: "The way of the egghead is...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also...
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.