"What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand. I am profoundly aware of the magnitude of the universe, that all is ruled by law, including my finite person. I believe in the infinite wisdom that envelops and embraces me and from which I take direction, purpose, strength."
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Adlai Stevenson, as a Unitarian, prior to the union of Unitarian and Universalist traditions into the UUA, in which he participated, in This I Believe : 2 (1952) edited by Edward R. Murrow, p. 142
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