Adlai Stevenson I on anand thakur
Adlai Stevenson I31 quotes“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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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.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I Men may be born free
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai Stevenson I 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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