Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. - speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952

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. Stevenson Jr.
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. Stevenson Jr. - speech, October 3, 1952
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. - Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
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. Stevenson Jr.
Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. - quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. - speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
When you sling mud, you lose ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread
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.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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.
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. - retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. - Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. - speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952