Adlai Stevenson Quotes

"What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable."

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

"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts"

"What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

"I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches."

"The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."