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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

Adlai Stevenson I

A wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Anand Thakur
There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Candor Confession Criticism Dearest Democracy Good Political Self Soul Weapon
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur

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