The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. – Adlai Stevenson
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. – Adlai Stevenson
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man