Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

- 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

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

- 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

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

- 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…

- 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…

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

- Adlai E. Stevenson