An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON IYour public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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[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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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