"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

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Source : Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#Freedom Quotes #Patriotic Quotes #Independent Quotes

“Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.”
“A woman is a foreign land.”

Source : 1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.2,The Espousal, canto 9, prelude 2,'The Foreign Land'.
“I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.”
“A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.”
“I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.”
“Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes.”
“When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.”
“To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.”

Source : RICHARD HOFSTADTER (1962). “The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It”

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