Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Anand Thakur
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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An 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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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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 does not try to hurry history.
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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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