In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
Categories: america

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Categories: america

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
Categories: freedom

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
Categories: knowledge

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Categories: language