A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson quote You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Adlai Stevenson quote You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
Adlai Stevenson quote To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man-and also a nation.
Adlai Stevenson quote We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai Stevenson quote We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Adlai Stevenson quote We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai Stevenson quote The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
Adlai Stevenson quote Biography
American Democratic politician 1900 - 65
