A biography for Adlai Stevenson Ihasn’t been written yet.
“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
“A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.”
“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”
“Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.”
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
“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.”