Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Quotes
Consider the following quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.:
"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
"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."
"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."
"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
"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."
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
"Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one."
"There is a New America every morning when we wake u"