The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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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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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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