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.
ADLAI STEVENSON IEggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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 who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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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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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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