Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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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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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Men may be born free
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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