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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Adlai Stevenson I

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
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Anand Thakur
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Anand Thakur
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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Anand Thakur
A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Anand Thakur
There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Anand Thakur
[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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Anand Thakur
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Candor Confession Criticism Dearest Democracy Good Political Self Soul Weapon
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Anand Thakur
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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Anand Thakur
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

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