Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON IYour public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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[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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