Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
