Whether or not Adlai Stevenson gets into the White House, he seems sure of a place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Though his voice has been to Princeton, and his words occasionally sound Wilsonian, at other times they have the dry crack of a Will Rogers aphorism. Some samples from his speeches last week:
Patriotism. ". . . I venture to suggest that . . . patriotism ... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
"When an American says he loves his country, he means not only...
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