It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
ADLAI STEVENSON IPower corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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Men may be born free
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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 wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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