The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Men may be born free
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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