Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON IWhy is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMan is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
ADLAI STEVENSON IBad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMany wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON IAn editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON IToo often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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 ISelf-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThere must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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