Adlai E. Stevenson II, (1900-1965) Governor of Illinois (1949-1953), U.S. presidential candidate (1952, 1956), U.N. Ambassador (1961-1965) Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-10] of 10 Adlai E. Stevenson II quotesAdlai E. Stevenson II QuotesAdlai E. Stevenson II My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow it wherever the search may lead us.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Freedom rings where opinions clash.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II A hungry man is not a free man.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II It is a common heresy and its graves are to be found all over the earth. It is the heresy that says you can kill an idea by killing a man, defeat a principle by defeating a person, bury truth by burying its vehicle.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II We in America today would limit our freedom of expression and of conscience. In the name of unity, they would impose a narrow conformity of ideas and opinion… Only a government which fights for civil liberties and equal rights for its own people can stand for freedom in the rest of the world.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print