Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIt is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
ADLAI STEVENSON I[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.
ADLAI STEVENSON ISelf-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON IPerhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMan is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
ADLAI STEVENSON IToo often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
ADLAI STEVENSON II have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThey cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
ADLAI STEVENSON IWhy is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON IOur strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThere must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMany wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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