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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Adlai Stevenson I

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Apathy Better Indifference Often Right Servant Serve
A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Candor Confession Criticism Dearest Democracy Good Political Self Soul Weapon
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Carelessness Dangerous Freedom Liberty Prison Security
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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Climate Fear Insightful Patriotic Repression Right Tragedy
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
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 man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Century Civilization Man Party Save
Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Avoided Haste Many Patience Precipitated Reckless War

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