Adlai Stevenson II

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• Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  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

  • Patriotism

• 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.

  “Putting First Things First”, Foreign Affairs (January 1960)

  • Freedom

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

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  • Journalism
  • Writing

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