Quote #70

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

More from Adlai Stevenson

  1. It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.
  2. After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
  3. You are in the courtroom of world opinion:. All right, sir, let me ask you one simple question: Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S…
  4. A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
  5. She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.
  6. Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
  7. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
  8. The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

All Adlai Stevenson quotes