11 Adlai Stevenson Quotes on Society

Adlai Stevenson quotes on society

4. Laws are never as effective as habits.

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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36. Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

41. We live in an era of revolution - the revolution of rising expectations.

51. There is a new America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not. The new America is the sum of many small changes - a new subdivision here, a new school there, a new industry where there had been swampland - changes that add up to a broad transformation of our lives. Our task is to guide these changes. For, though change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

60. You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

65. We have confused the free with the free and easy.

66. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

102. Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

106. The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

108. That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.