Quotes
Quotes - Stevenson
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
In quiet places, reason abounds.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
