[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 IWhy is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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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 free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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