Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson
America and Americans
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.Adlai E. Stevenson
Communism and Socialism
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.Adlai E. Stevenson
Freedom and Liberty
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.Adlai E. Stevenson
Lying and Liars
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.Adlai E. Stevenson
Money
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.Adlai E. Stevenson
Morality and Ethics
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.Adlai E. Stevenson
Poverty
A hungry man is not a free man.Adlai E. Stevenson
Praise and Flattery
Flattery is all right—if you don't inhale.Adlai E. Stevenson
Science
Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.Adlai E. Stevenson
