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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952

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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952

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Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952

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