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.
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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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Men may be born free
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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[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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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