A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Quotations by Adlai E. Stevenson

Other quotes and quotations :

• A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. Adlai E. Stevenson
• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. Charles Caleb Colton
• Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
• Under the wide a Adlai E. Stevenson
• A hungry man is not a free man. Adlai E. Stevenson
• Flattery is all right if you don’t inhale. Adlai E. Stevenson
• Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson
• What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. Adlai E. Stevenson
• In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take. Adlai E. Stevenson
• Laws are never as effective as habits. Adlai E. Stevenson