Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ADLAI STEVENSON IYour public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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Men may be born free
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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