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A wise man does not try to hurry history.

Adlai Stevenson I

Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Avoided Haste Many Patience Precipitated Reckless War
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Carpe Diem Communist Lose Manifesto Uniting Yolk
Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Brave God Man Right Struggled
Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Candor Confession Criticism Dearest Democracy Good Political Self Soul Weapon
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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Apathy Better Indifference Often Right Servant Serve
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
Men may be born free
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I 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.
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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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