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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.

Adlai Stevenson I

There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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

Anand Thakur
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Century Civilization Man Party Save
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
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
[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.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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.
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
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
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
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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

Anand Thakur
Men may be born free
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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
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.

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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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