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

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

—G. K. Chesterton

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

—Gerald W. Johnson

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

—Harper Lee

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

—Clarence Darrow