More from Adlai Stevenson II
- Speech to the American Legion convention, New York City (27 August 1952); as quoted in “Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism” in Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History (2004) by William Safire, p. 79—80
- “Putting First Things First”, Foreign Affairs (January 1960)
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
More about truth and lies
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In contextA lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
