Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Quotes and Sayings


Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. ~Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ~Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

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.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.