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Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965)

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

CP 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.

CP A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

CP In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

When you sling mud, you lose ground.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

CP In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

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.

I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome.

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.

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

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.

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

CP I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

CP 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

It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.