Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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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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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Men may be born free
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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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.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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