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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Adlai Stevenson I

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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