Quotes by : Adlai E. Stevenson II

It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.

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

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

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

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

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth....

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson,....

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil....

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make....