Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 - July 14, 1965) was an American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent oratory, and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

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