68 Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson II

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.