Men may be born free
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Anand Thakur
Men may be born free
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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[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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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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