3 Adlai Stevenson Quotes on Civil liberties

Adlai Stevenson quotes on civil liberties

2. The whole notion of loyalty inquisitions is a national characteristic of the police state, not of democracy. The history of Soviet Russia is a modern example of this ancient practice. I must, in good conscience, protest against any unnecessary suppression of our rights as free men. We must not burn down the house to kill the rats.

13. 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.

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79. Because we believe in the free mind we are also fighting those who, in the name of anti-Communism, would assail the community of freedom itself.