“But the Wisconsin tradition meant more than a simple belief in the people. It also meant a faith in the application of intelligence and reason to the problems of society. It meant a deep conviction that the role of government was not to stumble along like a drunkard in the dark, but to light its way by the best torches of knowledge and understanding it could find.” GovernmentSocietyResearchAcademiaMadisonWisconsinPublic UniversityUwmadisonWisconsin Idea Author:Adlai Stevenson
“Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.” HypocrisyRichard Nixon Author:Adlai Stevenson
“We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave—to the ancient enemies of man—half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all.” EnvironmentGlobal WarmingEcologyUnited NationsGreenhouse GasesSpaceship Earth Book:Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (Classic Reprint): With a Foreword Source: Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (Classic Reprint): With a Foreword