Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Anand Thakur
Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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