Adlai Ewing Stevenson citáty
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson bol guvernér Illinois a veľvyslanec OSN.

✵ 5. február 1900 – 14. júl 1965
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“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)
Quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0231071949 by Robert Andrews (1993)
"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)
"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)
"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.) ..." -->
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.

“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.”

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

“Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.”

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

“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

“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

“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."

“The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations great or small — to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.”

As quoted in "The Bolton Embarrassment" in The Nation (1 August 2005) http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=9416

“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”

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

“The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.”

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)

“I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forthrightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.”

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

“There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one's convictions and not tell the people the truth.”

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

“The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.”

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

“With 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 purpose and inspiring way of life?”

"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)

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