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

Adlai Stevenson I

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Anand Thakur
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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Anand Thakur
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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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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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Avoided Haste Many Patience Precipitated Reckless War
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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 wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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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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