Adlai Stevenson II

“A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

“Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“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.”

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

“A politician is a man who approaches every question with an open mouth.”

“A hungry man is not a free man.”

“It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”

“There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.”

“In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.”

“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.”

“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”

“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.”

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

“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man.”