Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 39
“All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.”
— Livy
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome
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