• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

    Adlai E. Stevenson: To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
    "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.