Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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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 wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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