There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.
Adlai E. StevensonRead
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Interpretation
Free societies thrive on the open exchange of ideas and words.
This quote by Adlai E. Stevenson emphasizes the importance of freedom of expression as a foundational element of any free society. It suggests that for a society to be truly free, it must enable a vibrant and unrestricted dialogue among its members, allowing diverse opinions and thoughts to flow without hindrance, fostering understanding and progress.
In practice
During a speech advocating for social media reform, one might quote this to highlight the importance of free speech online.
There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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.
Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/.
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
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