When an American says that he loves his country, he … means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men’s souls.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson