Author Profile
Adlai Stevenson II
1900 – 1965 • American • Politician
17
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 17 quotesWe cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.— Adlai Stevenson II
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.— Adlai Stevenson II
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.— Adlai Stevenson II