"Putting First Things First", Foreign Affairs (January 1960)
Adlai Stevenson: 131 citations0 J'aime
Adlai Stevenson: Citations en anglais
Statement at the Democratic National Convention, as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) edited by James Beasley Simpson, p. 58; later published in The New America (1957), p. 7
Commencement address at Colby College, Waterville, Maine (June 7, 1964), reported in The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson (1979), vol. 8, p. 567
“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
Quoted in The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964)<br>Quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0231071949 by Robert Andrews (1993)<br> "Newspaper editors are people who separate the wheat from the chaff and then print the chaff." https://books.google.com/books?id=w8_p1eGVj8gC&pg=PA568&lpg=PA568&dq=adlai+chaff#v=onepage&q=adlai%20chaff&f=false (variation)<br> "Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and print the chaff." https://books.google.com/books?id=OTi0DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA701&lpg=PA701&dq=print+the+chaff&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=%22print%20the%20chaff%22&f=false (variation)<br> "Journalists separate the wheat from the chaff... and then print the chaff." https://books.google.com/books?id=5pXjFMzIUO8C&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=adlai+chaff&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=adlai%20chaff&f=false (variation) <!-- Extended context: "...reasoning well requires a good stock of background information. This certainly is true with regard to information -- news -- about what is going on in the world. The good news about the news is that there is more and better news out there [as of 2005] than ever before in history. The bad news about the news is that not all of the more is better. The trick is to know how to separate the wheat from the chaff and, thinking of the remark, above, by Adlai Stevenson, concentrating on the wheat. (Another bit of bad news is that masses of people pay more attention to news schlock than to news pearls.) ..." --><br>This statement has also been attributed https://books.google.com/books?id=d6JZryGvfxYC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210&dq=adlai+chaff#v=onepage&q=adlai%20chaff&f=false to an earlier usage by Elbert Hubbard.
John Stuart Mill, as quoted by Stevenson in Call to Greatness (1954), p. 102; this has also been misquoted as "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."
Misattributed
What I Think (1956), p. 55 http://books.google.com/books?id=3OchAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Men+may+be+born+free+they+cannot+be+born+wise+and+it+is+the+duty+of+the+university+to+make+the+free+wise%22&pg=PA55#v=onepage
“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, p. 203
Speech at the Democratic National Convention (18 August 1956)
To Soviet U.N. Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin in the United Nations Security Council during the Cuban missile crisis (25 October 1962)
“Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.”
Address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois. (21 July 1952); published in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952)
“Laws are never as effective as habits.”
Speech in New York City (28 August 1952)
“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
As quoted in Born to Run : Origins of the Political Career (2003) by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119
Quoted in The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964)
“The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.”
Quoted in The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964); this statement is derived from one by humorist Don Marquis
Look, p. 46 (22 September 1953)
“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (8 October 1952)
“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, Faith in Liberalism ( pdf http://www.adlaitoday.org/ideas/archive/care1_liberalism_08-28-52.pdf) (28 August 1952)
“In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.”
Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana (26 September 1952)
Often misquoted as "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
As quoted in "The Bolton Embarrassment" in The Nation (1 August 2005) http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=9416
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 508; this begins with a phrase derived from one in the Tao Te Ching, by Laozi
“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
Radio address (29 September 1952)
As quoted in Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (1971) by Leonard Louis Levinson, p. 237
“A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House…”
Speech in Washington D.C. (13 December 1952)
Speech, (3 November 1952) as quoted in "The Graceful Loser" in TIME (23 July 1965) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,841890,00.html
Speech to the United Parents Association, as quoted in The New York Times (6 April 1958)
Responding to an assertion that his support for a ban on nuclear testing would probably cost him votes, as quoted in As We Knew Adlai : The Stevenson Story by Twenty-two Friends (1966) by Edward P. Doyle, p. 185
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
Speech in Detroit, Michigan (7 October 1952)
Comment on the 1960 Richard Nixon presidential campaign and the Republican symbol, in news summaries (30 August 1960), as quoted in The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans and Political Usage (1968) by William Safire
Statement of 1956, as quoted in Adlai Stevenson : A Study in Values (1967) by Herbert Joseph Muller, p. 174
"To American Aims," http://books.google.com/books?id=7U4EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22With+the+supermarket+as+our+temple+and+the+singing+commercial+as+our+litany+are+we+likely+to+fire+the+world+with+an+irresistible+vision+of+America's+exalted+purposes+and+inspiring+way+of+life%22&pg=PA97#v=onepage Life magazine (30 May 1960)
