Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility - these are th — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates) — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular,… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
