Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThere must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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 IAn editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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 IA wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMen may be born free
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 IPower corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIt is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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 IA wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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