Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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[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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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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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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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