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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Adlai Stevenson I

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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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…
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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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[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

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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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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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