Frases de Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II foi um político estadunidense, filado no Partido Democrata.

Era neto de Adlai Stevenson I. Foi governador do estado de Illinois e candidato duas vezes a Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América , sendo derrotado em ambas por Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Foi ainda embaixador dos Estados Unidos nas Nações Unidas . Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Fevereiro 1900 – 14. Julho 1965
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson: 145   citações 5   Curtidas

Adlai Ewing Stevenson Frases famosas

“O editor é alguém que separa o joio do trigo e publica o joio.”

Adlai Stevenson, político norte-americano, citado em "Teoria Do Jornalismo"‎ - Página 217, de Felipe Pena, Publicado por Editora Contexto, ISBN 8572442847, 9788572442848

“A raça humana aprimorou tudo exceto a raça humana.”

Em "Wages are Going Lower!" (1951), William Joseph Baxter escreveu: "Um pode quase dizer que tod aa raça humana parece ter melhorado tudo, exceto as pessoas." Variações dessa citação apareceram desde então, com ou sem os créditos a Adlai Stevenson, mas nenhuma documentação conecta Stevenson a essa citação.
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“Aqueles que corrompem a opinião pública são tão funestos como aqueles que roubam as finanças públicas.”

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse
Major campaign speeches, 1952 - Página 130, Adlai Ewing Stevenson - Random House, 1953, 320 páginas

“Entender as necessidades humanas é metade do trabalho para satisfazê-las.”

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
Major campaign speeches, 1952‎ - Página 200, Adlai Ewing Stevenson - Random House, 1953 - 320 páginas

Adlai Ewing Stevenson frases e citações

“Se meus inimigos pararem de dizer mentiras a meu respeito, eu paro de dizer verdades a respeito deles.”

declaração em campanha, em Fresno, Califórnia, 10/11/1952.
William Randolph Hearst, cerca de Charles Evans Hughes, em 1906, conforme citado em "The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When" (2006) por Ralph Keyes

“Se você vai abster-se de qualquer dizendo mentiras sobre o Partido Republicano, eu prometo não contar a verdade sobre os democratas.”

Chauncey Depew, conforme citado em "If Elected I Promise (...)" "Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians" Histórias e pedras preciosas da Sabedoria Sobre Políticos] (1969), de John F. Parker

“Não existe maldade na bomba atômica - somente na alma dos homens.”

discurso em Hartford, Connecticut (18 de Setembro de 1952).

Adlai Ewing Stevenson: Frases em inglês

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

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

“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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

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

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.”

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.”

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

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

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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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