A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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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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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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