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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 752
AUTHOR: Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900–65)
QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: ADLAI E. STEVENSON, governor of Illinois, speech before the Los Angeles Town Club, Los Angeles, California, September 11, 1952.—Speeches of Adlai Stevenson, p. 31 (1952).
SUBJECTS: Government