America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson Quotes
The most American thing about America is the free common school system.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Let’s face it. Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you’re attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies […]
In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense of partial failure, our less than ideal families, […]
Adulation is all right if you don’t inhale.
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you are attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man […]
