Carelessness 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?
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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