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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.

Adlai Stevenson I

There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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
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
Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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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
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Carpe Diem Communist Lose Manifesto Uniting Yolk
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Carelessness Dangerous Freedom Liberty Prison Security
[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.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Brave God Man Right Struggled
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
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 I

Anand Thakur
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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Abomination Dishonesty Helping Lord Lying Trouble
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.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Alone Appeal Being Strong Ground Ideal Lying Our Providing Stockpile Strength Struggling
Men may be born free
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Anand Thakur

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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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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