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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…

Adlai Stevenson I

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Apathy Better Indifference Often Right Servant Serve
Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Brave God Man Right Struggled
A wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Avoided Haste Many Patience Precipitated Reckless War
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Candor Confession Criticism Dearest Democracy Good Political Self Soul Weapon
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Abomination Dishonesty Helping Lord Lying Trouble
There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Alone Appeal Being Strong Ground Ideal Lying Our Providing Stockpile Strength Struggling
The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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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.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur

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