A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
Adlai Stevenson IIf we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai Stevenson IAn editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai Stevenson II have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
Adlai Stevenson I