Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
ADLAI STEVENSON II have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.
ADLAI STEVENSON ISome of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
ADLAI STEVENSON IA wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIf we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
ADLAI STEVENSON IOur strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
ADLAI STEVENSON IPerhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON IPower corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
ADLAI STEVENSON IAn editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON IBad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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 wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThey cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I