The early years of the United Nations have been difficult ones, but what did we expect? That peace would drift down from the skies like soft snow? That there would be no ordeal, no anguish, no testing, in this greatest of all human undertakings?
Any great institution or idea must suffer its pains of birth and growth. We will not lose faith in the United Nations. We see it as a living thing and we will work and pray for its full growth and development. We want it to become what it was intended to be — a world society of nations under law, not merely law backed by force, but law backed by justice and popular consent.


Speech in Springfield Illinois (24 October 1952)

Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

The early years of the United Nations have been difficult ones, but what did we expect? That peace would drift down from the skies like soft snow?...

The early years of the United Nations have been difficult ones, but what did we expect? That peace would drift down from the skies like soft snow?...

The early years of the United Nations have been difficult ones, but what did we expect? That peace would drift down from the skies like soft snow?...

The early years of the United Nations have been difficult ones, but what did we expect? That peace would drift down from the skies like soft snow?...