Adlai E. Stevenson ( 10 of 25 )
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, read more
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed read more
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any read more
Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, read more
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.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to read more
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like read more
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
