An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMany wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Men may be born free
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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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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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 does not try to hurry history.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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