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 IHere, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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