Adlai StevensonThinkers

America is also an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact... the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Diplomacy is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.

The Editor is a man who separates the wheat from the chaff, and then prints the chaff.

An Egghead is a man who has a lot in his head but nothing on it.

Flattery is like a cigarette... it is all right if you don't inhale.

A Free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Freedom not an ideal, nor even a protection if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

A Hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.