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Adlai Stevenson II — Portrait after a picture by Warren K. Leffler (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Adlai Stevenson II

American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953

1900–1965

30 quotes, most often on Freedom, America and Wisdom.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 39
- War & Peace
- Wisdom
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
Speech in Columbus, Ohio (3 October 1952); quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 429
- Wisdom
In matters of national security emotion is no substitute for intelligence, nor rigidity for prudence. To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man — and also a nation.
Radio address (11 April 1955); as quoted in The World’s Great Speeches (1999) edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna
- Character
- Wisdom

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