A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON IAn independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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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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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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