Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
funny journalism virtue
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
inspirational funny motivational
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
funny friends truth
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.
funny witty humorous
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
Not enough, ... I'm going to need a majority.
flattery inhale
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale
fist freedom mind patriotism strike subtlety ugly
To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety
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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.
ambassador deny medium missiles placed placing range sites ussr wait yes
Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?
advice avoid careful counsel damages following giving ought
We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
attended basis nations twentieth united
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
free safe society
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
life three
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
compose men society women
A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.