Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMany wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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