Men may be born free
ADLAI STEVENSON ISelf-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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