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 IPerhaps 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 editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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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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