132 ordspråk av Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?
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Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
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