Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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