Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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