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.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its sec… - Adlai E. Stevenson
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its sec…
- Adlai E. Stevenson
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. - Adlai E. Stevenson
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. - Adlai E. Stevenson
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. - Adlai E. Stevenson
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith… - Adlai E. Stevenson
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith…
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. - Adlai E. Stevenson
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. - Adlai E. Stevenson
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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 sto… - Adlai E. Stevenson
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 sto…
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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