Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Men may be born free
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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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 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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