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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Adlai 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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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

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