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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Adlai Stevenson I

Men may be born free
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Anand Thakur
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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[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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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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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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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Anand Thakur

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

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