Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
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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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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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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale
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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.
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Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?
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We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
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You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist, and I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room!