97 Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...