97 Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

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.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.