“Moving among wretched people in mean places, as I often saw him do, he had the impulses of a saint but not the serenity.”Alistair Cooke About Adlai Stevenson Six Men (1977)
“To the goggling unbeliever Texans say — as people always say about their mangier dishes — "but it's just like chicken, only tenderer." Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.”Alistair Cooke
“Some people say we are on the verge of the Second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerfulness kept breaking in. I am not by nature a 'Whither America?”Alistair Cooke man. June 1968) In: Talk About America (1968