68 Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson II

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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.

I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.