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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

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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
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
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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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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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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Alone Appeal Being Strong Ground Ideal Lying Our Providing Stockpile Strength Struggling
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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
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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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
[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 free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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