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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.

Adlai Stevenson I

Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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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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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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 sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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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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Anand Thakur

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.

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