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„Ничто так не старит человека, как жалобы на нынешнюю молодежь.“

„Ложь — это тяжкий грех перед Господом. И очень действенная помощь в беде.“

„Лесть — как сигарета: в ней нет ничего вредного, если не затягиваться.“

„Молодой человек чувствует, что весь мир мал для него.“

„Если бы свобода была естественным состоянием каждого нормального представителя рода человеческого, человек давно бы уже был свободен — он большую часть жизни проводит в кандалах. А потому не будем лукавить: естественное состояние человека — не свобода, а рабство; естественное обращение с человеком — тирания.“

„Тот, кто швыряется грязью, теряет почву под ногами.“

Эдлай Стивенсон цитаты

„Если они перестанут рассказывать ложь о нас, мы перестанем рассказывать правду о них.“

„Источником любого прогресса всегда были только те люди, которые принимали непопулярные решения.“

„Из всех сладких горестей нет ничего слаще той, что вырастает из несчастной любви.“

„Зло не в ядре атома, а в душе человека.“

“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.”

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“We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution, and the powers of the atom are about to be harnessed for ever greater production. We live at a time when even the ancient spectre of hunger is vanishing. This is the age of abundance! Never in history has there been such an opportunity to show what we can do to improve the quality of living now that the old, terrible, grinding anxieties of daily bread, of shelter and raiment are disappearing.”

"Putting First Things First", Foreign Affairs (January 1960)

“Happily for us, students have not tried to overthrow the Government of the United States, but they certainly are making their views felt in public affairs. I think especially of the participation of American students in the great struggle to advance civil and human rights in America. Indeed, even a jail sentence is no longer a dishonor but a proud achievement.”

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

“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”

Commencement address at Colby College, Waterville, Maine (June 7, 1964), reported in The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson (1979), vol. 8, p. 567

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

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)  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.

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

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

“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”

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

“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”

As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, p. 203

“You are in the courtroom of world opinion…. All right, sir, let me ask you one simple question: Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U. S. S. R. has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no — don't wait for the translation — yes or no?" [The Soviet representative refuses to answer. ] "You can answer yes or no. You have denied they exist. I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that's your decision. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room.”

Speech at the Democratic National Convention (18 August 1956)

“Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.”

To Soviet U.N. Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin in the United Nations Security Council during the Cuban missile crisis (25 October 1962)

“Laws are never as effective as habits.”

Address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois. (21 July 1952); published in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952)

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

Speech in New York City (28 August 1952)

“Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.”

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)

“Many of the world’s troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution—the revolution of rising expectations. In Asia, the masses now count for something. Tomorrow, they will count for more. And, for better or for worse, the future belongs to those who understand the hopes and fears of masses in ferment. The new nations want independence, including the inalienable able right to make their own mistakes. The people want respect—and something to eat every day. And they want something better for their children.”

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.”

Look, p. 46 (22 September 1953)

“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”

Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (8 October 1952)

“In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.”

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)

“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.”

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

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”

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.”

Radio address (29 September 1952)

“A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House…”

As quoted in Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (1971) by Leonard Louis Levinson, p. 237

“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 in Washington D.C. (13 December 1952)

“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 the preconditions of educational recovery in America today; and, I believe, they have always been the preconditions of happiness and sanity for the human race.”

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.”

Speech to the United Parents Association, as quoted in The New York Times (6 April 1958)

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

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.”

Speech in Detroit, Michigan (7 October 1952)

“I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”

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?”

Statement of 1956, as quoted in Adlai Stevenson : A Study in Values (1967) by Herbert Joseph Muller, p. 174