A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Anand Thakur
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
ADLAI STEVENSON IAn independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
ADLAI STEVENSON IPerhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
ADLAI STEVENSON ISome of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
ADLAI STEVENSON IPower corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThey cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThere must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON ISelf-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON IAn editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON IMan is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIt is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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