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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Adlai Stevenson I

A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Century Civilization Man Party Save
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
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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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
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Carelessness Dangerous Freedom Liberty Prison Security
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Men may be born free
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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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
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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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