Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIt is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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