Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON ISelf-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
ADLAI STEVENSON IPower corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON IWhy is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMan is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThere must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIt is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
ADLAI STEVENSON ISome of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMany wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
ADLAI STEVENSON IToo often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON IYour public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
ADLAI STEVENSON IAn editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON I