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We mean by 'politics' the people's business—the most important business there is.
By Adlai Stevenson
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no gr...
By Adlai Stevenson
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
By Adlai Stevenson
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
By Adlai Stevenson
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
By Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
By Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil ad steady dedication of a lifetime.
By Adlai Stevenson
We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power
By Adlai Stevenson
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
By Adlai Stevenson
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
By Adlai Stevenson
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. But it is not easy to banish the notion that there can be universal brotherhood just as soon as everybody gives up his faith and accepts ours. That day may never come, for the richness of human diversity cannot be abolished any more than Mars or Jupiter. Difference is the nature of life, it is part of our moral Universe. Without difference, life would become lifeless.
By Adlai Stevenson
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
By Adlai Stevenson
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
By Adlai Stevenson
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
By Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime
By Adlai Stevenson
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set
By Adlai Stevenson
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff
By Adlai Stevenson
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality
By Adlai Stevenson
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
By Adlai Stevenson