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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Anand Thakur
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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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Men may be born free
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Our 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.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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