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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

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
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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Climate Fear Insightful Patriotic Repression Right Tragedy
Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Avoided Haste Many Patience Precipitated Reckless War
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Brave God Man Right Struggled
[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.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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Men may be born free
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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