Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
ADLAI STEVENSON I
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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