More from Adlai Stevenson I
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I A wise man does not try to hurry history.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I [I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I
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From our community writers
Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LucretiusLucretius You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy.
Adi DaAdi Da Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LucretiusLucretius Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LucretiusLucretius The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LucretiusLucretius You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson You are all spirits. It is not that you “have” a spirit.
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