An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON IYour public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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 free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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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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