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Adlai Stevenson II — Portrait after a picture by Warren K. Leffler (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Adlai Stevenson II

American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953

1900–1965

30 quotes, most often on Freedom, America and Wisdom.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
“Putting First Things First”, Foreign Affairs (January 1960)
- Freedom
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Speech in Detroit, Michigan (7 October 1952)
- Freedom
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Speech to the American Legion convention, New York City (27 August 1952); as quoted in “Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism” in Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History (2004) by William Safire, p. 81—82
- America
- Freedom

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