They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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