Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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