The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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