They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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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