A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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 tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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[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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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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