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ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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