Adlai Stevenson II Quote

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity — in short, of tyranny — and it is committed to making tyranny universal.


Quoted in "Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson" (1952), Random House. Republished in the New York Times, "Books of the Times", by Charles Poore, April 20, 1953, p. 23


Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity — in short, of tyranny — and it is committed to making tyranny...

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity — in short, of tyranny — and it is committed to making tyranny...

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity — in short, of tyranny — and it is committed to making tyranny...

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity — in short, of tyranny — and it is committed to making tyranny...