Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness 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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Men may be born free
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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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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