Adlai Stevenson Men Quotations

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.