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 IThere must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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 lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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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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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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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Men may be born free
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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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