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[joeallonby]

on 7/5/04 6:46 PM, Mike Weaver at mikeweaver at gn.apc.org wrote:

> 
>> 
>> I particularly enjoyed the reference to the optimist who jumped off the
>> Empire State Building. As he passed the twentieth floor, he yelled "So far,
>> so good!"
>> 
>> Does this joke pop up anywhere else?
> Hey Joe, not sure where is the ref you mention, but see here
> 
> http://home.att.net/~jrhsc/ad.html
> 
It's in the Boeing article which was apparently written in 1960, or at least
internally published then. What was the date on the Stevenson quote, and was
there a pre-existing joke to which he or a speech-writer was referring?

Thanks for the Stevenson link. Much good stuff there. My mother once said
that Adlai Stevenson was the smartest man who never became President of the
United States. Thank whatever you believe in that when the stakes were
really high he lost to a decent adult such as Eisenhower; and not a
worthless entitled Fauntleroy like Dubya, or Al Gore.


> 
> 
> Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that
> sometimes he has to eat them.
> Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
> 
> 
> 
> The contest with tyranny is not a hundred-yard dash -
> It is a test of endurance.
> 
> 
> If the Republicans stop telling lies about us, we will stop
> telling the truth about them.
> 
> I have finally figured out what the Republican orators mean
> by what they call "moderate progressivism."  All they mean is:
> "Don't just do something, Stand there."
> 
> The Republicans have a "me too" candidate running on a "yes but"
> platform, advised by a "has been" staff.
> 
> 
> Our mission is the prevention, not just the survival, of
> a major war... There are no Gibraltars, no fortresses
> impregnable to death or ideas any more.
> 
> 
> Most of us favor free enterprise for business. Let us
> also favor free enterprise for the mind.
> Adlai Stevenson, 8-27-52
> 
> My definition of a free society is a society where it
> is safe to be unpopular.
> Adlai Stevenson, 1952

> 
> If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free
> to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free
> mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a
> ten-foot chain.
> Adlai Stevenson
> Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
> October 8, 1952
> 
> 
> A free society means a society based on free competition and
> there is no more important competition than competition
> in ideas, competition in opinion. This form of competition
> is essential to the preservation of a free press.

> 
> The struggle between faith and fear will decide the
> destiny of our nation.
> 
And my personal favorite of the lot:

> 
> It is not possible for this nation to be at once
> politically internationalist and economically
> isolationist.  This is just as insane as asking one
> Siamese twin to high dive while the other plays
> the piano.
> Adlai Stevenson, 1952
> 
Peace,
Joe