A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON IBad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Men may be born free
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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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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[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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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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