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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II. byl americký politik, guvernér státu Illinois v letech 1949—1953 a prezidentský kandidát ve volbách 1952 a 1956.

Pocházel z rodiny politiků, jeho dědeček Adlai E. Stevenson byl viceprezidentem za vlády Grovera Clevelanda. Absolvoval University High School ve městě Normal a Princetonskou univerzitu. V roce 1928 se oženil s Ellen Bordenovou, která se s ním rozvedla v roce 1949, protože neschvalovala jeho politickou kariéru. Jejich synem je bývalý senátor Adlai Stevenson III.. Vykonával právnickou praxi a pracoval v Rooseveltově administrativě na projektu Agricultural Adjustment Act. Za 2. světové války působil v tiskovém oddělení námořnictva a byl delegátem v OSN. V roce 1952 byl kandidátem demokratů na prezidenta, získal však pouze 44,3 %, devět států a 89 volitelů, takže hlavou státu se stal Dwight Eisenhower. Stevenson proti němu znovu kandidoval v roce 1956, ale skončil ještě hůře: 42 %, sedm států a 73 volitelů. V roce 1960 se stal vyslancem Spojených států u OSN, upozornil na sebe energickým postojem v kubánské krizi. Zemřel na infarkt myokardu při procházce na Grosvenor Square.

Adlai Stevenson se hlásil k unitářství.Ve filmu Třináct dní, pojednávajícím o kubánské krizi, hrál Stevensona Michael Fairman. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. únor 1900 – 14. červenec 1965
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„Když se demagogie a podvod stanou národním politickým hnutím, my Američané jsme v nesnázích; nejen demokraté, ale všichni.“

Adlai Stevenson

Originál: (en) When demagoguery and deceit become a national political movement, we Americans are in trouble; not just Democrats, but all of us.
Zdroj: [Adlai Ewing Stevenson: An Urbane, Witty, Articulate Politician and Diplomat, nytimes.com, 1965-07-15, 2015-10-31, http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0205.html]

Adlai Stevenson: Citáty anglicky

“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”

Adlai Stevenson

Quoted in The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964)

“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”

Adlai Stevenson

Statement quoted in news summaries (11 January 1954); as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) edited by James Beasley Simpson, p. 58

“Never run against a war hero.”

Adlai Stevenson

Response when asked if he had any advice to give to a young politician, quoted in "History Remembers…Adlai Stevenson" by Maureen Zebian in The Epoch Times (4 November 2004) http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-11-4/24153.html

“The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.”

Adlai Stevenson

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. 81

“Gentlemen, there is business before your house and I propose to get right to it, obeying, as far as I can, what seems to me becoming to be known as the Republican law of gravity.”

Adlai Stevenson

Address to the AFL Convention in New York City, transcribed in the New York Times, September 23, 1952. In context, Stevenson was saying that the Republicans were humorless, in contrast to his own sense of humor. This quote resembles the unsourced and confusing version, "I refuse to personally criticize President Eisenhower, I will not submit to the Republican concept of gravity."

“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity — in short, of tyranny — and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”

Adlai Stevenson

Quoted in "Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson" (1952), Random House. Republished in the New York Times, "Books of the Times", by Charles Poore, April 20, 1953, p. 23

“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”

Adlai Stevenson

As quoted in The Stevenson Wit (1965) edited by Bill Adler

“Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.”

Adlai Stevenson

Speech in Urbana, Illinois (1951); as quoted in Adlai's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Stevenson of Illinois (1952), p. 20

“A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.”

Adlai Stevenson

As quoted in The Stevenson Wit (1965) edited by Bill Adler

“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.”

Adlai Stevenson

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

“There is no evil in the atom, only in men's souls.”

Adlai Stevenson

Speech in Hartford, Connecticut (18 September 1952)

“The Republican party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young.”

Adlai Stevenson

Comparing Richard Nixon to Alben Barkley during the 1952 presidential race, as quoted in Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait (1959) by Earl Mazo, Chapter 7

“It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man — not a color.”

Adlai Stevenson

Foreword to booklet on interracial relations prepared by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, as quoted in The New York Times (22 June 1964)

“A hungry man is not a free man.”

Adlai Stevenson

Speech in Kasson, Minnesota (6 September 1952)

“I can't say that I love it with a fierce passion — indeed as a profession it's rather disappointing since it is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”

Adlai Stevenson

On being a lawyer, as quoted by Claire Birge in The Stevensons : A Biography of an American Family (1997) by Jean H. Baker, p. 262

“Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”

Adlai Stevenson

As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green

“A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.”

Adlai Stevenson

As quoted in The New York Times Magazine (7 February 1965)

“We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinkmanship — the art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss.”

Adlai Stevenson

Referring to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a speech in Hartford, Connecticut (25 February 1956)

“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”

Adlai Stevenson

Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952); earlier incidence of similar comments exist:
If Mr. Hughes will stop lying about me, I will stop telling the truth about him.
William Randolph Hearst, about Charles Evans Hughes, in 1906, as quoted in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
Chauncey Depew, as quoted in "If Elected I Promise … "Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969) by John F. Parker

“I have sometimes said that flattery is all right, Mr. President, if you don't inhale it.”

Adlai Stevenson

Opening sentence of Stevenson's first appearance at the UN as UN Ambassador, February 1, 1961. From "Looking Outward", by Adlai Stevenson, p. 3

“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”

Adlai Stevenson

Variations of this quote are often attributed to Stevenson without a date or location for the remark. Two early occurrences are in a Congressional hearing on November 13, 1985, where Stevenson was quoted by Representative Ted Weiss ("Limits on the Dissemination of Information by the Department of Education" (1986), published by the GPO); and an article dated June 4, 1989 by Sue Ann Wood in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Write Editor, Readers Urged"). No source closer to Stevenson has been found.
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