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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

Adlai Stevenson I

Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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 who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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Men may be born free
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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
[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
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
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

Anand Thakur
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

Anand Thakur
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur

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