Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

There is a new America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not. The new America is the sum of many small changes — a new subdivision here, a new school there, a new industry where there had been swampland — changes that add up to a broad transformation of our lives. Our task is to guide these changes. For, though change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses … yet we are all children of the same Judaic-Christian civilization, with much the same religious background basically.

I have learned that In quiet places, reason abounds, that in quiet people there is vision and purpose, that many things are revealed to the humble that are hidden from the great.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.