Adlai Stevenson II on New Year
1900–1965 United States
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
What I Think (1956)
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
The Stevenson Wit (1965)
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us — what convictions, what courage, what faith — win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
We are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.