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

Adlai Stevenson I

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

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

Climate Fear Insightful Patriotic Repression Right Tragedy
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Brave God Man Right Struggled
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
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Candor Confession Criticism Dearest Democracy Good Political Self Soul Weapon
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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
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
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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