The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
ADLAI STEVENSON IYour public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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 independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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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Men may be born free
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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