Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety
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The most American thing about America is the free common school system
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
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This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
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It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting ""go right"" and ""go left"" at the same time.