Adlai Stevenson II Quote

Diplomacy … is not the art of asserting ever more emphatically that attitudes should not be what they clearly are. It is not the repudiation of actuality, but the recognition of actuality, and the use of actuality to advance our national interests.


1954, quoted in American Heritage [Oct. 1973]


Diplomacy … is not the art of asserting ever more emphatically that attitudes should not be what they clearly are. It is not the repudiation of...

Diplomacy … is not the art of asserting ever more emphatically that attitudes should not be what they clearly are. It is not the repudiation of...

Diplomacy … is not the art of asserting ever more emphatically that attitudes should not be what they clearly are. It is not the repudiation of...

Diplomacy … is not the art of asserting ever more emphatically that attitudes should not be what they clearly are. It is not the repudiation of...