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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.

Adlai Stevenson I

Men may be born free
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Anand Thakur
Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Brave God Man Right Struggled
There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
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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Anand Thakur
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Apathy Better Indifference Often Right Servant Serve
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Abomination Dishonesty Helping Lord Lying Trouble
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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Anand Thakur
A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Century Civilization Man Party Save
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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Anand Thakur
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Carelessness Dangerous Freedom Liberty Prison Security
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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Anand Thakur

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